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Sun Tzu has stated in "Art of War" (ancient Chinese military treatise) that " If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.". This ancient phrase is still applicable today to depict the struggle between data security experts and hackers. To take any action in our defense system one must know how<|fim_middle|> on iPhone and Mac? | hackers act and that's why one must know about Cyber Kill Chain! This will surely prove to be a milestone if you are seriously trying to defend your system because Cyber security certifications will not be of any use if you aren't aware of the basics! So, let's get started!
What Is Cyber Kill Chain?
It can be defined as an ordered list of phases of a cyber attack starting at the earliest stage of planning and stretching to the attack's conclusion. Hence, we can say that the Cyber Kill Chain gives a bird's eye view of the hacking strategy. The Cyber Kill Chain is similar to an idea that was put forth by Lockheed Martin. In his model as well the phases of a targeted attack are described.
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If the cyber security experts are able to break down how the intruder come inside their network and exploit loopholes, they can be used for protection of an organization's network as well.
There are seven phases in Cyber Kill Chain and each one has its own advantage! This chain is a lot like a stereotypical burglary. The attacker inspects the system before trying to infiltrate it. Once done, it goes through a few more steps before the actual loot! So, let's get started and know about these phases!
The first thing required for attacking is to identify and shortlist a target. This entirely depends on the motive of the attacker, for him victim can be anyone, an organization, community or even an individual. The reason behind this is that the target is someone with information which is considered valuable by the attacker! Firstly, he gathers as much information as he can about the victim. Once this is done, he searches for vulnerabilities to exploit and breach the network. As huge organizations have multiple layers of security, and have experts with cyber security certifications, this might a lot of time. However, the more knowledge the attacker acquires about its target, dangerous it is.
Now, in the second step, attacker re-engineers some malware using a few sophisticated techniques that suit his purpose. Depending on the motive of the attacker, the malware exploits unknown(to the security experts of organization) vulnerabilities, to defeat the victim's network's defenses. Also, by advanced methods, he reduces the chances of detection via standard security protocols.
At this point in time, the attacker knows his victim thoroughly. All he has to do now is send the malicious codes to him. The three most popular methods for this are email attachments, websites that lure him or via removable device. The transmission and eventually the delivery of his bundles is the next step, but then, these efforts have consequences and the attacker is also fingerprinted digitally. So, if the victim's security system is efficient enough, he will know about the abnormal behaviour in the network and take necessary actions. Taking backups and adding a security layer will surely prove helpful.
At this stage, vulnerability on the network or system are to be exploited. However, the defense capabilities that are customized according to the needs of organization are necessary in order to stop exploits at this stage. As soon as the attacker gets to the weak spot, he starts exploiting via scripted code that hides itself under the victim's work environment.
In this, a remote access backdoor is installed on the victim system. This allows the attacker to establish continuity inside the host's environment. Deploying "Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System" can be of some use! It's crucial to understand the motive of malware instead of acting against it. The defenders must take necessary actions before this step to avoid data breach!
This is the last instance to take any action(for defender) by obstructing Command and Control channel. By doing this, adversaries can not issue any commands, and thus defenders can prevent their impact. Don't forget that malware are seldom automated, usually it's manual. General practice followed by any intruder is establishing control over several workstations to gather data without being noticed. Therefore one should have proper tools that help in defending from the same!
Never forget that, longer anyone has this much access of your system, the consequences may be unbearable. The affected party must detect threats quickly, furthermore deploy tools and experts that will help them in long run. You should make sure that you are not lagging behind in anything that is necessary for your data security because if you do, no one will be able to help you!
But if you think this something every attacker follows, then you are mistaken for sure! Every attack is unique and may add or delete the phases to Cyber Kill Chain in order to succeed! The cyber security experts say that they wish every attacker follows this so that the defending party may get a lot of time and opportunities to safeguard themselves! They have also conveyed that they need to keep an eye on cyber security news as well to stay on the same page!
It is often seen that data security professionals get intimidated by the sophistication of any attack, rather they should focus on each step of the attack. Doing so will help them to understand that any attack is never one in a jiffy, it takes time! And if we are alert enough, we can stop the attack before it initiates.
Always remember, always treat cyber attacks as continuum not an incident and possibly then you'll be able to identify and stop them! What do you think? Do let us know in the comments section below!
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By jimadmin Last updated Feb 27<|fim_middle|>znor, along with frequent contributor Atticus Ross, is nominated twice. The couple received nods for the score "Mank," another departure inspired by Hollywood soundscapes from the Golden Age, and for the inventive music from the metaphysical Pixar film "Soul". Reznor could well pick up another globe (he's already won one for "Social Network") and put this statue on a shelf that's already heavy with Emmys, Grammys, an Oscar and the big plaque they give you to make it to the rock and roll hall of fame.
This is again the guy whose creepy music video made my mom turn off MTV for a couple of years.
It's a career path to strive for.
And we should probably have a statue of Trent Reznor erected somewhere between here and New Castle. It won't be a very literal statue; probably just a big, abstract silver thing. People will call it "terrifying and beautiful".
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Reznor's career is the result of an ever-expanding range of skills and interests.
IThis week it occurred to me that Pittsburgh had not fully embraced Trent Reznor.
The persevering musician and composer, whose early fame with the idiosyncratic alternative rock act Nine Inch Nails led to a dazzling second act in compositions for film and television, is not from Pittsburgh in the strict sense; He was born in New Castle and grew up mainly in Mercer. But as a scion of western Pennsylvania in general, few are more worthy of our civic pride.
I don't mean it just as a matter of success – I mean it as a matter of evolution. I think Reznor's career is what we should all strive for.
Nine Inch Nails grew up feeling dangerous in the 90s. The band had a lot of temporary members but is basically just Reznor. I remember a year-long ban on MTV in my house, inspired in part by the infamous video for "Closer," a hypnotically disturbing creation that received contemporary allegations of trading in satanic imagery. I clearly remember my mother's shock at the video – its series of disturbing looks and macabre characters, its footage of a squirming, squirming insect, its bondage-inspired outfits, and distorted figures.
By the way, that was the censored version of the video.
For 1994 – a year in which three places on the Billboard table at the end of the year were occupied by squeaky clean Swedish pop stars Ace of Base – it was certainly fire content, even after heavy editorial work (replaced by a "Scene Missing" title card) it is acceptable for broadcasts on MTV.
Nine years later, VH1 Classic – the older sister station of an already older network – called "Closer" the best music video ever made.
I don't want to make the reaction to Nine Inch Nails sensational. While the plot was appropriately scary for suburban parents, the band has been critically and widely viewed as popular. Nine Inch Nails spent much of 2005 opening for David Bowie. Reznor did not deserve the breathless media anger and religious outrage that would boil his contemporary Marilyn Manson, nor would he receive the unfair scourge mainstream culture elevated towards hip-hop in that era.
However, if you watched the video "Closer" – or the slightly better and equally creepy follow-up "The Perfect Drug" – you wouldn't have guessed that this guy would be making a Disney movie a quarter of a century later.
Backstage at the time, Reznor had his demons; In the 1990s, he struggled with depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse. Good or bad, these battles are somewhat evident in his musical performance at the time – and unlike other acts of the era that would be dubbed "shock rock," exploring these battles feels real in Reznor's music.
While it's easy to draw a clear line between a healthier lifestyle – Reznor graduated from rehab in 2001 – and safer creative endeavors, I think that's reducing. Certainly the release of Nine Inch Nails in the 2000s and 2010s is very different from albums like "The Downward Spiral". However, listening to the band's more recent releases alongside Reznor's scores for films like "The Social Network" and "Bird Box" still shows variety and experimentation.
In other words, Reznor's career is the result of an ever-expanding range of skills and interests. This is not the story of a man who made "Closer" and then developed in a straight line until he made the score for "Mank". It's the career of an artist who started in one place and expanded his interests and skills until he could do any number of things.
Later that week, the Golden Globes will announce this year's winner for Best Original Score – a category in which Re | 818 |
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Held the 1st Thursday of each month, we gather together as a chamber to network and get to know each other. Each month these events are held in a different location and may include activities such as food and drinks, music... or even bowling and other activities. It's a time to delight in the company of our fellow chamber business men and women.
Held the Third Thursday of each month at the Utah Pride Center. This meeting offers networking time and provides an | 153 |
We are frequently asked if it is possible to just turn up and ride without being a member. The answer is yes, just sign-on as a private entry, pay the entry fee and ride. Often people are apprehensive about their ability, enquiring as to the "standard". No problem here, as we cater for all abilities and no one will be critical. Sympathy and advice is always available.
How do time trials work?
Massed start cycle racing is not permitted on public roads, except with special provisions, so time trialling is the only competitive<|fim_middle|> by post. Normally entries close 10 days before the event.. A start list is published, as is a full results list after the event with details of prizes. Whereas most club events involve local riders arriving near the start where they sign-on and ride, competitors in open events travel longer distances, requiring the organising club to provide an HQ, usually a village hall or a school, where refreshments are available. Because competitors in an open time trial are less likely to be familiar with the course these events tend to have more marshals and are well signed to indicate the route and warn other road users. | cycling event generally available. Even so police approval has to be obtained and certain procedures have to be followed. Riders start at one minute intervals and their start time is taken into account when calculating the actual time taken. Riders are issued with a number and this should be pinned to their clothing at the back, ideally below waist level. If you wear it too high (like a footballer) it can't be seen when you're bent over the bars. Riders should keep well apart as 'drafting' is against the rules. When being overtaken allow the faster rider to get away, even drop back if necessary. At the finish continue past the timekeeper for a short distance. It also helps to call out your number as you cross the finish line.
We accept new members from the age of 12. We are aware of child protection issues and therefore insist that children be accompanied by an adult. That adult should decide whether to accompany the child on a ride, or whether the child is competent enough to ride alone. We suggest the adult rides with them, ideally just behind, but not pacing him/her. The adult doesn't have to enter as part of the event. It is also necessary for a parent or guardian to sign a "Parental Consent" form which is available at the start, or can be downloaded from our website.
Keep well to the left unless making a U-turn or right-turn at a roundabout, in which case move across with care without obstructing traffic. Try not to drift into the middle of the road when making a big effort, eg. when approaching the finish.
Ignore any abuse from other road users - remember you are riding in an officially sanctioned event and avoid bringing the club into disrepute.
In 2018 we introduced a club rule that a hard shell helmet to an approved standard should be worn, together with a rear light. In shady or poor conditions motorists can sometimes miss seeing a cyclist. Nowadays a red LED light, whether flashing or constant, is inexpensive, weighs only a few grammes and could save your life.
If you travel to the event by car please consider local residents and through traffic when parking. Complaints could lead to us losing courses. Also please don't park your car at the finish where the timekeepers need to be. The timekeepers have to synchronise watches at the start and then move to the finish, which is where riders expect to find them.
Many of our events use sections of the A45 dual carriageway. Contrary to common opinion this is relatively safe since it has no oncoming traffic and as the road is straight motorists can see riders a long way ahead. With riders spaced every few hundred yards or so motorists are aware that an event is taking place. Winding country lanes are not ideal for time trialling as they are used increasingly by motorists as short cuts.
We rarely cancel an event due to bad weather. However, we would cancel in the event of gale force winds, or heavy rain over a sustained period causing standing water. This is the most serious hazard, since it can cause instability and aquaplaning, while spray from heavy vehicles can make it impossible to see a cyclist. Ultimately, under CTT rules riders are responsible for their own safety, so the final decision as to compete rests with the rider.
We have a club rule which states that riders should not congregate at the finish. This is in the interests of safety as few finish locations have sufficient space. It also reduces opportunities for the timekeepers to be obstructed or distracted, which is in everyone's interest.
Private entries pay £3 per ride, members £2.50. Of this fee £2 per rider goes to our national association, the CTT, mainly covering 3rd party insurance. We charge juniors £1 per ride as we effectively subsidise youngsters in order to encourage them. All riders are required to sign-on before each event. Rugby RCC has a booking system where members can reserve a number for each event through our club website.
Membership of Rugby RCC costs £10 per year, non-waged (students, unemployed, retireees, OAPs, etc.) £5 and under-18s still in education pay £1. Fees are due in January, but for anyone joining in September onwards we have a rule where this also covers the following year's membership. A membership form can be downloaded from our website.
After riding club events you may want to try open events. These are usually held at weekends, have larger entry lists, often up to or exceeding 120, and can be entered by anyone in the UK, providing they are a member of a club affiliated to the CTT (Cycling Time Trials). You can usually enter these events via the CTT website, or | 973 |
A University of Alabama student has been selected to join climate change experts and United Nations representatives as they meet in South Africa to develop an international climate change agreement.
John Canada, a chemistry major at UA, was selected by the American Chemical Society to attend the U.N. conference along with four other students from across the country.
Representatives from more than 190 countries will be in attendance at the conference which begins Tuesday and ends Dec. 9.
Canada will attend the first week of the<|fim_middle|> world leaders in the climate change field.
He was encouraged to apply to the ACS for the opportunity to attend by Robin Rogers, a UA chemistry professor.
But the real challenge awaits Canada on his return to the U.S. The main reason the ACS is sending Canada and his counterparts is for them to get their peers interested in the climate change discussion.
"I'll be going to different high schools and colleges, both here in Tuscaloosa and in my hometown in New Orleans, and present our findings on what's going on and what leaders are trying to do and how they can get involved and help," he said.
Canada said much of his motivation for the trip is remembering how much he knew about climate change in high school.
Canada said he plans to create a short documentary on the conference and present it to classes.
"A girl from, I believe, Penn State made a short film last year when she attended the conference. When she showed it to her sorority sisters, they didn't care at first, but as they started watching it, they did get interested and they changed a lot of things there," he said.
In addition to UA's Canada, the society selected two students from York College of Pennsylvania and one each from Penn State and Carnegie Mellon universities as the five representatives.
While attending the conference, the students will employ social networking, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs to reach out to their peers and educators in the U.S. | conference, known officially as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 17th Conference of Parties.
"At the conference, they'll be working to get some actual international laws established that they've been trying to set up for years in past conferences," Canada said.
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New York auto show moving to August 2021
DETROIT — The 2021 New York auto show is moving to August, four months later than planned, organizers announced Tuesday.
The event, which was postponed and later canceled this year because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, will take place Aug. 20-29, with a press day Aug. 19, officials said. The 2021 event was originally slated to run April 2-11.
Show organizers on Tuesday cited the pandemic as<|fim_middle|>'re facing, we have determined that moving the dates of the 2021 NYIAS to August is not only the responsible thing to do, but it puts us in a unique position to occupy the expanded Javits Center with an additional 100,000 square feet of new exhibit space on the main floor and much more," Mark Schienberg, president of the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association, said in a statement.
The expansion will add not only more floor space, Schienberg said, but also additional event spaces, meeting rooms and a rooftop pavilion.
Organizers say the 2021 show will include an expanded electric vehicle exhibit that will include displays and a test track.
New York's move is the latest in a shuffling of show dates in response to the pandemic.
The Detroit auto show, which planned a June 2021 event, announced last month that it would move to September. That move came weeks after organizers of the Los Angeles Auto Show said they would move the 2020 show from November to May 2021, which would have been wedged between the original 2021 dates for New York and Detroit.
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Page actuelle 1 page 2 ▸▸▸ | from diagnostics of the institutional quality of civil service systems in 16 Latin American countries. The IDB supported the design of a methodology that evaluates critical points to assess the civil services and carried out country evaluations in 2004. Between 2011 and 2013, a second group of diagnostics second group of diagnostics were completed (with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank, and in the case of Central American countries and Dominican Republic with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development –AECID- and the Central American Integration System-SICA). Scores are available for 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 (year of second and/or third measurement varies per country). During the first assessment, 93 critical points were identified; each of those fed a subsystem and an index. In 2010 the methodology was simplified to 33 critical points and the base line was recalibrated to ensure comparability. The methodology is based in the identification of critical points that feed 8 subsystems: 1. Human Resources Planning, 2. Work Organization, 3. Employment management, 4. Performance management, 5. Compensation management, 6. Development management, 7. Human and social relations management, 8. HR Function organization; and 5 indexes: 1. Efficiency, 2. Merit, 3. Structural consistency, 4. Functional capacity, and 5. Integrating capacity.
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The Public Management Evaluation Tool (PET) evaluates five "pillars" of the public policies' management cycle that are considered important for the implementation of Management for Development Results (MfDR): (i) results-based planning, (ii) results-based budgeting, (iii) public financial management (including auditing and procurement), (iv) program and project management (including the public investment system), and (v) monitoring and evaluation of public management | 524 |
Heading Into The Last Weekend of Summer!
It's so hard to believe that it's already Labor Day weekend! Summer went by so quickly, but this is one summer that I am ready to say goodbye to. I didn't get anything done that I wanted to do this summer and I am ready to welcome in some cooler weather and our normal school routine.
Aiden started the summer out attending a fun Art Camp that my very talented friend, Michelle does for a<|fim_middle|>. A wonderful way for God to work through these young children.
My summer camp kids making pine cone bird feeders.
Hiking in the woods with my campers. We got outside a lot this summer with our friends from Muddy Sneakers.
Have you ever seen a field trip this fun? Summer is the best.
Checking out this beautiful area on one of our field trip.
Time for the 1st day of 5th grade!
What was your favorite part of summer? I hope that it was a great one and I hope that you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!
What wonderful summer time memories you were able to capture in all of the pictures!
I'm also looking forward to the cooler weather. | small group of close friends. This is our 3rd painting that he has done and I have framed. I love to have his beautiful art displayed in my house.
Aiden participated in the local summer swim team. Swim meets were a big deal and lots of fun.
He had a very successful swim season. He has decided to swim year round and we start back up next week. I love that he loves to swim.
Next up, is basketball camp with JLT Fieldhouse. This is a fun week every summer. Basketball with our friend Antwaun is the best.
I made Aiden's birthday cake...for the first time ever! It was delish!
How is it possible that my baby is 10 years old. We celebrated this milestone birthday in July.
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The Panther Student Pantry (PSP) opened its doors February 2014 as a food pantry established to directly benefit PCC students. This is a special initiative that is in full operation with the help of ambitious employees and energetic students. The Panther Student Pantry is funded by student fees to assist in overcoming food insecurities. Currently enrolled students are able to utilize this service once a week. Students may select six unique food items and one hygiene product.
The pantry is open Tuesdays and Wednesdays from the hours of 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm (when school is in session). The Panther Student Pantry is a partner agency with Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado. The pantry officially opened on February 4th, 2014.
To contribute to this special initiative, you may drop off food items at the many permanent locations over the campus. We always welcome non-perishable food items, toiletries, and personal hygiene items. To assist financially, you may make a tax deductible donation through the PCC Foundation or put your contribution in the PSP donation drop box just inside the doors of the Learning Center.
Panther Student Pantry marked its 1,000th student user!
Travis Gurule, a PCC welding student, has become the Panther Student Pantry's 1,000th student user! Gurule is a regular Pantry visitor. His favorite food items have been the potatoes, tuna<|fim_middle|> in the Pantry. | fish, and toiletries. Having a desire to also give back, Travis and his wife have started working as volunteers | 23 |
Home to 2 United States Presidents, Quincy, Massachusetts is a city with a rich heritage and numerous amenities. Buy a home in Quincy and enjoy all it has to offer, in addition to its close proximity to downtown Boston. Quincy, also known as the City of Presidents, has acres of gorgeous parks, hiking and rock climbing at the Blue Hills Reservation, multiple world class golf course, and 27 miles of picturesque coastline and beaches. Quincy is home to numerous prestigious neighborhoods, all boasting impressive real estate options for prospective homebuyers. One such neighborhood is Wollaston.
Wollaston is home to a vibrant commercial district, as well as multiple residential streets with homes of varying architectural styles, sizes and prices. Wollaston is bordered by North Quincy on the north, Quincy Center and Merrymount on the south and southeast, Quincy Bay on the east and Milton, Massachusetts on the west. The neighborhood of Wollaston is divided into 2 parts, Wollaston Park, located on the Wollaston Beach side of Hancock Street, and Wollaston Heights, located on the Wollaston Hill side.
Students residing in Wollaston are served by Quincy Public Schools, a district comprised of 11 elementary schools, 5 middle schools and 2 high schools. In addition to excellent educational opportunities, residents of Wollaston also enjoy all the exquisite dining options available in Quincy. Quincy is largely considered the dining capital of Boston's South Shore and boasts an impressive range of restaurants. Within Quincy you can find Asian<|fim_middle|>, Massachusetts, or you have other Boston metro area real estate questions, please do not hesitate to contact us today. | cuisine, Indian, Italian, Mexican, cuisine and everything in between. A few of the locals' favorite eateries include The Clam Box, The Ice Box, Coffee Break Cafe, among others.
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I am Co-hosting the virtual Cookie & Goodies Exchange party with several of my blogger buddies, I hope you will pop by for a visit and exchange a few recipes with us.
This cookie recipe has been a forever family favorite in my house. Delicious barely describes these melt-in-your-mouth wonders, and the recipe is super easy too! We have always called them Mexican Wedding Cakes, but some people call them Snowball Cookies. Because these cookies do look like little snowballs, they make a perfect holiday cookie.
The recipe has six ingredients: Butter, Powdered Sugar, Vanilla, Flour, Salt, and Nuts.
You bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes, then roll the cookies in powdered sugar.
Easy right? So, onto the Directions and Recipe.
Slightly soften the butter. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, and whisk until smooth and creamy. Add flour, salt, and finely chopped nuts (I used walnuts, but have also used pecans). Mix well.
The dough is soft and crumbly. It seems like it's on the dry side, but it's not. It will stick together easily. Roll the mixed dough into small balls, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake until lightly golden and let cool for 1-2 minutes. Drop into powdered sugar and roll around to cover the cookie. Place cookie on wax paper. Once the entire sheet of cookies has been dusted with powdered sugar, dunk them through the powdered sugar a second time. Return to wax paper to finish cooling.
A scrumptious cookie recipe that is good all year round, but particularly lends itself to<|fim_middle|>, Twitter and Pinterest. Have a wonderful week.
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No eggs?? Then I should try these cookies.These sounds simple and amazing, Lorelai. Wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and your family.
These are my favorites! Luckily my son likes them too so I have an excuse to make them.
I loved it when my neighbor used to make these for her big Christmas party. I would go to her house and help her make all of her delicious cookies. This was one of my favorites.
I love this cookie recipe. Whenever it is on a dessert table at a holiday party, it is the first cookie I go to. Just delightful! I found your recipe on the #HomeMattersParty!
Cookies that look like snowballs are perfect for the holidays! I bet these are good with hot cocoa on the side. Thanks for sharing your recipe at the #HomeMattersParty this week. Merry Everything! | the winter holidays since the cookie looks like a tiny snowball.
Additional Powdered Sugar for rolling after baking.
Drop individual cookies into the additional Powdered Sugar and roll around to coat.
This recipe yields 3-6 dozen cookies depending on how large or small you roll you dough balls.
I bake my cookies for 10 minutes to start and add a minute at a time if needed.
I hope you will enjoy the Mexican Wedding Cakes as much as we do. Be sure to stop by The Ultimate Virtual Cookie & Goodies Party & Giveaway and link up some of your holiday favorites! It's a cookie and goodie exchange, so take away some great new recipes to try.
What are your family favorite holiday cookies?
These are some of my favorite Christmas cookies to make and devour!
I love Mexican wedding cookies! I could eat the whole batch! Wish I had one of these right now. They look so yummy!
Thanks, Karen. You will have to let me know how your baking goes. 🙂 Enjoy!
Oh yum! I love those melt in your mouth type cookies. Looks good and easy!
My husband makes these, called Snowball Cookies but they could be called The Incredibly Disappearing Cookies, couldn't they! So glad you are Co-Hosting with us. It is so much fun saving all these fabulous recipes!
Love the name Snowball Cookies (snow, winter, Christmas – so my world!). Pinning to try for Christmas. They look so yummy!
These look so great Lorelai!! And fairly easy to make! I'll be pinning them for later 🙂 Thanks for sharing them at the cookie party!!
I haven't made snowball cookies in such a super long time. These looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing them on Merry Monday.
Looks yummy. I'm planning to make an apple/carrot cake for my hubby birthday which this year fall on Thanksgiving. I don't have a favor cookie. Some years I make date filled cookies. But this year I'm only going to do fruit cakes.
I stop in from Social Saturday.
I've never tried to make them, but I love these cookies. They are one of my favorite Christmas cookies. Thank you for sharing and linking up to Scraptastic Saturdays. This post has been shared via Facebook | 461 |
Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture ... and ...
Հեղինակ՝ Michigan. State Board of Agriculture
SEVENTH ARTICLE.
WHITEHALL, MONTAGUE, WHITE LAKE, DUCK LAKE, DALTON, FERRYS.
VILLE.
THE LAKE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. Nine miles north of Muskegon Lake is another barbor of importance, known as White Lake. Near the mouth are the villages of White Lake and Ferrysville, and at the head, four miles east, on the southeast, is Whitehall, and on the north Montague. Both these latter villages are reached by the Chicago & Lake Michigan Railroad, and by lake steamers from Chicago, Grand Haren, and other lake harbors. Their principal business is lumbering, and the growth of fruit has not assumed large proportions. Yet the facilities for producing and shipping fruit here are excellent, and only require development. Along on each side of White Lake are several successful orchards, enough to show that peaches and other fruit incident to this region can be successfully grown here, while at and near Duck Lake, peaches are already extensively planted. The immense quantity of fruit land here, owned chiefly by lumbermen, secure its cheapness and offer rare opportunities for those who desire to enter the busivess of frnit raising.
FRUIT LANDS. WINE COMPANY. The land between Muskegon and White Lakes is gradually being brought under cultivation, both for general and special farming, and several of the owners are liberal in their terms to actual settlers. It is proposed by them to start a wine company, offering, several years ahead, a good price for grapes, as it is found that the grape can be grown here with the utmost certainty, and if vine growers were assured of fair prices there would be strong inducements to embark in the business. The principal draw back to grape growing is the inadequate demand while grapes are fresh from the vines, and the difficulty of preserving the grape fresh until a large crop can be consumed and other fruit is scarce. This difficulty a wine manufacturing company would obviate, and although the idea of cor verting grapes into wine is objectionable on total abstinence principles, it is contended that wine drinking would to a great extent lessen the amount of whiskey drinking, and thereby decrease the aggregate of intemperance and greatly mitigate its evils. Without advocating this plan, we may venture the remark that if men will drink intoxicating liquors, it is much better to drink pure, upadulterated, mild wine than to drink the ordinary liquors of commerce. The owner of these lands, who is prominent in this project, is Mr. Samuel Odel, of Muskegon, and he is known to be reliable for any contract he may make.
WHAT ONE MAN HAS DONE. There are several interesting places in this region, that of Mr. H. S. Tyler, north of Bear Lake, being particularly worthy of mention. His shipping point is Dalton Station, on the Chicago & Lake Michigan Railroad. Mr. Tyler came bere a few years ago an invalid and without means. He went into fruit farming, recovered his health, and 18 now considered worth ten to fifteen thousand dollars. He is one of the most careful cultivators, and his place is a model of successful fruit farming.
Sach opportunities are open here to a thousand such men who are now languishing in cities for the want of healthy, remunerative employment. Industry, perseverance, and intelligent culture will accomplish the same results in all parts of the White Lake fruit region.
FRUIT EXPORTED. Mr. H. M. Gilman, Secretary of the White Lake Pomological Society, reports that 6,000 baskets of peaches, 200 bushels of strawberries, and six tons of grapes were exported from Whitehall this season, besides small quantities of other fruits.
NEW FRUIT FARMS--PRICE OF LAND. Mr. Gilman also informs me that there are six farms on the south side of White Lake, near to the water, specially devoted to fruit. They are all new farms and only three of them beginning to bear. That the upcultivated land of this region can be purchased at from $12 to $100 per acre, according to location and quality, the price decreasing farther from the lake.
INCREASING INTEREST IN FRUIT CULTURE. Mr. Gilman informs me that there is more general interest being felt in regard to fruit culture here than ever before, the present season having greatly encouraged growers, owing to both quantity and quality produced and prices realized. Many new orchards are being planted and tracts of ground being cleared for future planting. The prospect that Whitehall will become a prominent fruit port is rery encouraging.
EIGHTH ARTICLE.
PENTWATER, SHELBY, GOLDING, MEARS, PETITE POINT SAUBLE, CLAY
BANKS, HART, STONY<|fim_middle|> no fancy sketch, for although all the fruit trees here have been planted within ten years, there was at the county fair this year a magnificent display
* Pere Marquette died here May 18, 1675. Was buried on an elevation selected by himself, but two years after, his remains were removed io Mackinac and interred in a vault in the Mission Church of St. Iguatius. | CREEK.
OCEANA COUNTY AS AFFECTED BY LAKE WINDS. Lake Pentwater is located about twenty-seven miles north of White Lake, and the country between the two Lakes embraces some of the finest beech and maple land in the State of Michigan, with clay banks along the great lake. We can scarcely imagine a soil or situation better adapted for good general farming and for fruit than this. The land projects westward nearly midway between the two lakes, forming Petite Point Sauble, commanding the full sweep of the most prevailing winds from Chicago, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles of water, giving Oceana county the greatest possible advantage from the lake breezes on the southwest, while on the north west it is protected in a similar manner by the bay which commences at Petite Point Sauble.
THE LAY OF THE LAND. Passing along the Chicago & Lake Michigan Railroad from Montague to Pentwater, the rolling character of the land and the beech and maple timber, with here and there a small lake and creek, constitute the principal features, the settlements being new, but little fruit growing is yet visible from the railroad.
PENTWATER LAKE. Lake Pentwater is an irregular shaped piece of water three miles long, averaging half a mile in width and sixty feet in depth. The bar at the mouth has been so reduced by U.S. engineering as to afford a safe passage to vessels drawing ten feet of water, there being now twelve feet of water over it.
BEGINNINGS IN PRUIT CULTURE. Mr. Howard, member of the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society, has a good orchard near the village of Pentwater, which is handsomely located on the north side of the lake.
Mr. G. W. Grant has a five acre clearing on a ten acre block near the village which he commenced on seven years ago. He planted peach trees, but desiring to raise vegetables also, be used manure quite freely, causing a rank, sappy growth on the trees, and the natural consequence, the loss of the trees by winter freezing. He was more successful with plum trees, two of which, now seven years old, produced five and a half bushels. These were the Imperial Gage and Duane's Purple. The Jefferson plum also bears well. He has not yet been troubled with the curculio. Mr. Grant produces very large carrots, mangold wurtzel, etc., by manuring his sandy land.
There are numerous peach and apple orchards within a few miles of Pentwater, although not many in its immediate vicinity. At Hart also, the county seat, there are good productive orchards, Mr. Carver and Mr. Russel being prominent growers.
Mr. E. J. Shirtz reports at Shelby station, on the Chicago & Lake Michigan Railroad, good beech and maple land with good water. Apples a short crop this year, but fair quality. Peaches very good and of the best quality. Plums a good crop and very fine, the best varieties being the Lombard, the Golden Drop, the Yellow Gage, and Purple Egg. These varieties all did will. Pears very fine, the Seckel, Flemish Beauty, and W. Doyenné are the first and best bearers. Of grapes, which bore abundantly, the Concord, Catawba, Delaware, and Isabella are the leading varieties. But little damage has been done by insects. The little slug has affected the cherry and pear trees, eating the lining from the leaves, the remedy for which is dry dust or fine sand thrown thoroughly over the trees. This never fails to kill the slug.
AVAILABLE LAND. Mr. S. A. Brown of Grand Rapids runs one of the mills here, and owns large tracts of land which he is willing to sell cheap, or have improved on shares.
INDIAN RESERVATION.
The Indian Rreservation, consisting of two townships of Oceana county and two of Mason county land, has been only partially taken up by Indians, the balance will probably be unreserved by act of Congress next winter, and will then, it is expected, be made subject to homestead entry one year before it is placed in the market for sale. This will afford excellent opportunity for actual settlers to make some of the finest farms in Michigan at little cost. The timber being well worth the cost of clearing, and the land when cleared, will be excellent for fruit and general farming purposes. It averages ten miles from Lake Michigan on its western line.
CAPABILITIES DEMONSTRATED. It has been shown that the finest apples, the choicest plums, and very good peaches and grapes can be grown in this region, but the home market is not yet fully supplied, and Moulton's fruit from Muskegon, was most prominent in the village stores.
MARKET AND SHIPPING FACILITIES, The home market is good, while the shipping by rail or water is already secured, and will soon be improved by the completion of the Detroit, Lansing, & Lake Michigan Railroad to Pentwater.
NINTH ARTICLE.
LUDINGTON CITY, AMBER, RIVERTON, SUMMIT, FREESOIL, GRANT,
LINCOLN, GRAND SAUBLE, BLACK LAKE, LITTLE SAUBLE
LAKE, BIG SAUBLE LAKE, POINT AU SAUBLE,
PERE MARQUETTE LAKE.
LAKE PERE MARQUETTE AND SURROUNDINGS. Twelve miles north of Pentwater Harbor is Pere Marquette Lake, nine miles long and from half a mile to a mile broad. On the north side of this lake and open to Lake Michigan, is the busy, enterprising, and rapidly improving city of Ludington. No place that I have visited along the lake shore exbibits greater prosperity or promises more in the future than Ludington. Along the north side of the lake, for nearly two miles, are graded streets and beautiful avenues with shade trees and side walks. Many handsome stores, several hotels, good county buildings and residences, besides some of the finest mills, several of which are handsome structures, and the grading of streets give to Ludington the appearance of wealth and prosperity.
ATMOSPHERIC INFLUENCES AND SCENERY. The atmospheric advantage spoken of in the eighth article in relation to Oceana county, is equally enjoyed by Mason county. Grand Point au Sauble, near the center of the county on its west line, projects several miles west, giving to Mason county a frontage on the lake, with south-west and northwest aspects, and commanding, in the south-west direction, a sweep of about 180 miles of water, and another sweep from the north-west of fully one hun. dred miles. Although twenty days had elapsed between my visits to St. Joseph and to Ludington, I discovered little or no perceptible difference as to the effects of frost, although at several intervening points the frost king had greatly changed the face of nature. At the gardens of Hon. D. L. Filer and Mr. L. H. Foster, on the end of the avenue open to Lake Michigan, at an elevation of less than 40 feet from the lake, we found tomatoes sound and good, the leaves on the vines only slightly shrivelled, while in their front gardens Gladiolus, Stocks, Verbenas, Phlox, Coxcomb, Tritoma, and the sweet-scented Mignonette greeted us with their rich tints and pleasant perfumes, not even daunted by the first chill blast, and apparently wholly unconscious that they were twenty-five miles north of 43°-30®, and that it was October 21st. There we stood talking about fruit with Mr. Foster with these choice evidences of the Creator's favor at our feet, the bright, warm sun overhead, the gentle breezes sweeping up the gradual ascent, and the vast expanse of water, every ripple tinted with a golden hue, spread out beyond the power of vision to compass; the receding shore running north-west towards Point au Sauble on the right, the beautiful harbor with its busy little steamers and tugs plying for miles inland, and vessels loading with forest productions at the mills; the orchards and gardens about the city; beyond, to the south, a dark forest rising on ground two hundred feet above the lake, and extending as far as the eye could reach, offering to the hand of skillful industry a mine of treasure, and to the people good wholesome fruit in abundance, and we wondered if Moses when he stood on Pisgah viewing "the land of Gilead unto Dan," that land promised unto the seed of Abraham, could have seen a sight more beautiful or a land of promise more rich in Heaven's blessings. Well might the sainted Pere Marquette select this spot for his resting place,* giving to the lake the inheritance of his noble name.
FRUIT LANDS. Those high lands to the south, and these gently rising shores to tbe north, spread open to the lake, are destined in a few years to bear their burden of luscious fruit; the plum, the nectarine, the peach, and the grape, will here vie with each other in freighting steamers for distant and less favored shores, and when the pine tree shall have become scarce, and the lumber interest shall have departed for the remote south, or the less hospitable north, this goodly land shall send forth productions more valuable than lumber; crops that increase rather than diminish with the rolling years, each little hill rejoicing as a homestead, and every stream floating, not as now with logs, but with boat loads of the varied fruits of the season.
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December 12, 2022 —Categories: Gambling
Whether played in casinos, at home, or over the Internet, poker is a card game that involves skill and luck. The basic concept of poker is to make a hand using five cards, with the<|fim_middle|> with the exception of the ace of diamonds and the jack of spades. Some versions of the game also use a "wild card," which is a card that is not part of the deck. The ace can be high or low. It can be a straight, which is two or three of a kind, or a flush, which is a five-card combination. The ace can also be used to create a "bluff," in which a player may bet that he has the best hand and hope that other players will fold.
A poker game can be very complicated, depending on how many players are involved. The number of players involved is generally considered to be between six and eight, though it can be as many as nine. The game is a popular spectator sport in North America. In some games, each player has a specific number of chips, which they must place in the pot before a turn is called. The amount of money in the pot is then divided by the number of players. In other games, each player has an equal share of the pot.
Some types of poker, such as Omaha, have more than two betting rounds. The first round, or flop, is dealt to each player, followed by a second round, known as the turn. During the third round, which is known as the river, all players have a card. The fifth and final round, or showdown, is the most important. The ace of spades is the only card shown in profile, but it is still a strong hand. Other hands include a pair of aces, two kings, and a pair of jacks.
A poker variant whose name is not very recognizable is called a low ball. In this game, each player has to make a bet to get into the game. The bettor can bet low or high, but it is a standard game that is primarily played in the United States. | possibility of winning by making the highest-ranked hand or by bluffing. Most versions of the game involve betting, so each player has an obligation to make a bet or raise.
Various games of poker are played with different rules. Some are community card games, while others are individual card games, such as stud. All variants have some similar rules, however. The main rule for any type of poker is that each player has to contribute to the pot, with the exception of fixed-limit games, which are prohibited from making any bets above the limit. Generally, the player to the left of the big blind is the first to act. The other players can check, call, or raise their bets. The betting intervals vary from one round to the next. For example, a stud poker game has a betting interval after each round of dealing, which is usually twice as long as the first.
The "poker" of the game is the fact that each player has a card face-down, | 197 |
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"You worked hard" not "You're so smart"
Po Bronson, (co-author with Ashley Merryman of the great book "Nurtureshock") wrote an article a few years ago called "How not to talk to your kids" about the pitfalls for kids of receiving certain kinds of praise. It was based largely on the work of researcher<|fim_middle|>, probably all of us, need to be encouraged to view intelligence as maleable and process-related rather than static and inherent. It is a good way to avoid trapping kids in what Alice Miller called the "drama of the gifted child," the need to protect a false, perfect image of one's self from failure. "You worked hard" encourages us to try new things and, as the incomparable Ms. Frizzle says, "Get messy. Make Mistakes." | Carol Dweck.
The article is a great read and the research is an example of interesting social science (that doesn't rely on over-interpreted fMRI images). The upshot is that kids | 41 |
Springvale Homemaker Centre by Leffler Simes Architects
The Springvale Homemaker Centre in Melbourne's South East – by Leffler Simes Architects, features IKEA and Harvey Norman as well as 26 specialty homemaker style tenancies. One of the major highlights of the centre is its sheer scale. The 205,000sqm building features over 76,000sqm of NLA (net leasable area) over two levels and parking for 2800 cars. "The aim was to create a fully enclosed shopping centre for homemaker focused tenants, which features modern materials and creates large open spaces with natural light to keep a connection to the outside," explains Leffler Simes director, Stephen<|fim_middle|>am, the roof lights and all other glass in the project were installed by Viridian glazing. Connectivity between the two levels is retained, with 250sqm of glass balustrades providing views down to the ground level. The west façade is glazed extensively with Viridian EnviroShield XIR Clear 70 VLam, and is protected by a series of mesh screens, which assist with solar shading as well as provide an architectural feature to the building's exterior. "One of the key drivers of our glass choices throughout the project was solar performance. We sought advice from Viridian early on in the planning stages and then consulted with the project's mechanical engineering team to ensure the glass met all the other relevant requirements. Given the centre's retail nature, it was important that the glass was reasonably clear to maximise views from the outside." Register your email address (above right) to receive email notifications for future GlassTalks articles, or visit www.viridianglass.com.au. To download a PDF of this article as a case study click here. Photography by Tony Miller.
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Aussie Icon Reborn: The Illawarra Flame House | Evans. Environmental sustainability was a key consideration in the design of the centre, with Viridian performance glazing, energy efficient air conditioning, lighting systems, rainwater harvesting, solar shading and various other initiatives incorporated into the centre. At 10,000sqm, the Harvey Norman store is one of the largest to date, glazed with Viridian EnviroShield XIR 70 Clear, providing high light transmission combined with exceptional solar control. While IKEA, at 36,000sqm, is the second largest IKEA in the southern hemisphere (second only to the new 39,000sqm IKEA Tempe in Sydney – also designed by Leffler Simes Architects). IKEA's façade, includes Viridian 8.76mm EnviroShield Performance XIR EnergyTech 62, with added EnergyTech Low E coating for superior insulation properties. Glazed with Viridian 13.52mm Grey Heat Strengthened VL | 206 |
I had heard of the Lubavitcher Rebbe prior to meeting him. Nothing prepared me, however, for meeting him in person.
It was in 1986 when I had my second meeting with the Rebbe—together with the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, my colleague Rabbi Avraham Schapiro. It was 1 a.m., but despite the late hour and a full day of communal activities, the Rebbe was completely alert. The conversation covered all sections of the Torah: the Talmud, Jewish law, Kabbalah, etc. The Rebbe jumped effortlessly from one Talmudic tractate to another, and from there to Kabbalah and then to Jewish law... He was clear in all the subjects discussed and organized in his delivery. It was as if he had just finished studying these very topics from the holy books. The whole Torah was an open book in front of him.
The Rebbe's reasonings and answers to our in-depth queries were of the sort that I had never previously experienced—clear and brilliant.
There are those who have a vast all-encompassing knowledge of all sections of the Torah; but they usually do not possess an in-depth and deep understanding of the material. To meet a great mind that had both great knowledge as well as depth was a unique experience, an exceptional and rare phenomenon.
From where does one derive such energy, such talents? Bear in mind that the Rebbe didn't sit and learn the entire day—though even had that been the case<|fim_middle|>), an eminent descisor on Jewish law and the author of more than twenty volumes on halachah.
After The Rebbe The example set by The Rebbe is one which can guide every Jew who wishes to take upon him/her self the responsibility of living a life in which one's every thought is imbued with the goal and desire to live life as a concerned and grateful Jew: concerned for one's fellow Jews everywhere, and grateful that the opportunity exists, even in this complex present-day world.
The greatness of the Rebbe should be an inspiration to those who follow him, so that, venerated though he may be, The Rebbe's greatest achievement would be that his successor be a man inspired and knowledgeable, loving and devoted, innovative and aware. | , such scholarship would be unique. A great part of the Rebbe's time was devoted to Jewish activism. I can testify that the Rebbe worried about every Jew across the globe, and was active in all areas of goodness and charity, both spiritual and physical.
From where does one derive such energy, such talents?
I felt that the Rebbe was a holy person endowed with a special soul. He wasn't an individual for himself, as it were, he was the all-encompassing soul of the Jewish nation.
In the course of my lifetime I've met many rabbis and Jewish leaders. Some were brilliant in all sections of the Torah, some were leaders who brought great changes to the Jewish nation, and some were righteous individuals whose blessings worked great miracles. But I never met an individual who encompassed all these three: brilliance in Torah; great leadership, with emissaries across the globe; and miracles and wonders happening all around him.
The Rebbe's talks on the weekly Torah readings always contained a novel approach that enriches our understanding of the text.
"Why should we lose out? Why are we prevented from offering G‑d's sacrifice in the appointed time," complained the Jews who could not bring the Paschal sacrifice in its proper time, the eve of Passover, due to their impurity. G‑d then designated a later date—those who could not bring the Paschal lamb before Passover could do so on the "Second Passover," a month later.
The Rebbe offers a novel explanation that has implications on and illuminates our daily lives. If those Jews, says the Rebbe, had not voiced their protest of "Why should we lose out?" today we would not have a Second Passover. But Moses heard the Jews protest "Why should we lose out?" and he saw that it pained them. Seeing their pain, he was pained too. In pain he turned to G‑d, certain that G‑d would respond with a solution that would allow these individuals to have another chance.
We cannot just sit quietly; we must all ask "Why should we lose out?" Why should we not be a part of the Jewish tradition to the fullest degree possible—every individual on his or her level? And when we protest, G‑d arranges the possibilities and capabilities to fully participate.
And the footnotes on the Rebbe's published talks highlight his brilliance. He intertwined so many sources in his Torah talks.
I have asked: What does a man who was born in Russia and resides in Brooklyn have with Moroccan Jews in Casablanca? What does an Ashkenazi rabbi in the United States have with Sephardic Jews in Morocco? What motivated him to come to their aid?
I have one answer. It is because he felt for every single Jew. He was concerned for every individual and for the entire Jewish nation, not just a certain group; and every single person was important to him. He wanted all Jews to follow their parents' traditions, whether it was Ashkenazi or Sephardic.
An example: During our audience in 1986, the Rebbe requested that the chief rabbinate of Israel organize public Passover Seders in every city, so that people who could not attend another Seder could enjoy a communal one.
Those Passover events attracted Jews who had never before attended a Seder. Upon seeing the great public interest in this initiative, we worked on broadening the program—which, thank G‑d, is active in many cities and communities until today.
Now, why did the Rebbe have an interest that Jews in Israel should join a Jewish event? But he did care. He cared about those that otherwise would not join a Seder. Why did the Rebbe have an interest that Jews in Israel should join a Jewish event?He said that he is worried about the "fifth son," the one that does not come on his own to the Seder.
The entire Jewish nation was always before his eyes. His emissaries, who can be found across the globe, are doing amazing work. The Rebbe is the only leader I am aware of who sent away his most talented students to far off cities to reach out to the Jews in those communities.
In our private conversations we spoke about many issues—many of which cannot be revealed until this very day—regarding the unique challenges that face the Jewish nation.
It was intriguing that the Rebbe knew minute details of what was happening in the land of Israel, as if he lived in Israel. He knew for example that in this and this city there are issues with the mikvah (ritual bath), or that they need assistance in a certain communal area. There are so many instances of this happening in our audiences, written correspondence and phone conversations.
And through our various meetings I came to understand that he knew what was happening across the globe just like he knew what was happening in Israel. He knew the issues that affected every country and city—as if he lived there.
I needed to thank him for the honor, and instead he thanked me. There are no words to express the great honor that the Rebbe bestowed on me. The merit of meeting him and the fact that he escorted me outside following my fourth and final audience. His final words made a great impression on me. After an hour and a half of conversation, the Rebbe expressed his gratitude and thanked me for coming. I needed to thank him for the honor, and instead he thanked me.
Rabbi Eliyahu speaks to 1,000 bar and bat mitzvah boys and girls at a grand celebration in honor of their coming of age. The yearly event is organized on the anniversary of the Rebbe's birth.
The Rebbe never minced his words when he was concerned about a particular issue. What he stated, however, was always with love and a special care. The Israeli leaders knew that the Rebbe loved them with all of his heart, and hence they knew that when the Rebbe rebuked them, he did it for the love of the Jewish nation and with love for every single individual.
I remember once when the Rebbe learned of a scheme to personally humiliate one of the Israeli prime ministers. He made every effort to stop the individuals from doing so. To rebuke their actions, yes; to humiliate them, no. It takes special strength to rebuke and love at the same time. This power comes from the teachings of Chabad philosophy and its predecessor, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Chassidism.
The Rebbe did not see a sinful Jew; the Rebbe brought Jews closer, he embraced them for who they are and brought them closer to their Jewish roots. Though he was a brilliant scholar, he actively cared about even the simple unscholarly individuals.
During our four audiences, the Rebbe always sought out the merit of others. No matter the subject we were discussing, the Rebbe steered the conversation so that he could praise others.
G‑d showed kindness to our generation by giving us the Rebbe. I was worried, however, that after the Rebbe's passing the structure that he built would, G‑d forbid, crumble. But thank G‑d there is a continuation. There is a Chabad House in every place that I visit. Everywhere in the world, even in the farthest location, Chabad is there—even more than before his passing. There is a continuation.
I miss the Rebbe; it is painful to go to the Rebbe's gravesite. But the Rebbe left us his teachings, instructions how to continue in his ways We need to constantly examine our actions and ask ourselves: Is this what the Rebbe would tell me to do? We should envision the Rebbe looking at us, and ask ourselves: What would he say? Would he approve? We need to act as if we are standing in the Rebbe's presence.
The Talmud says that "Jacob our father did not die." The Talmudic sages then ask, what does it mean that he did not die? They buried him, they eulogized him! The Talmud explains that since his children are alive, he too is alive. Through the children doing good deeds and following in his footsteps, Jacob is still alive. The Rebbe's children are his students. They continue to spread Judaism as he wanted; the Rebbe is alive through them.
I miss the Rebbe; it is painful to go to the Rebbe's gravesite. But the Rebbe left us his teachings, instructions how to continue in his ways—and Chabad is following his direction.
As told by Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. Rabbi Eliyahu is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983-1993 | 1,802 |
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Beacon House Adoption Services has an excellent record of placements of newborns. Since 1989, we have served several thousand adopt<|fim_middle|> process and attempt to provide an adoption experience that will leave all parties satisfied and with a positive view of adoption. Adoption is more than just taking on a child. It is taking on a series of issues that involve other people and their feelings and this agency is well aware of the emotional environment of adoption. We believe our agency provides compassionate, straightforward service to all members of the adoption process. | ive families and birth mothers, and maintain a high success rate. Birth mothers are provided with extensive in-house counseling by our staff, as well as independent counseling with licensed social workers. We believe, this open line of communication with the agency is part of the reason for our success.
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RGC's errors in the first half cost them dearly as they were beaten by Llanelli at Parc y Scarlets.
"I think in the opening 20 minutes we gave away five penalties and add in the turnover ball, Llanelli took full advantage with the lead" he told the RGC website.
"We<|fim_middle|> in Harvey Scott from Cardiff Met as cover on the bench we did well.
Llanelli struck the first attack and were rewarded from a driving maul that powered over the line for the try on the third minute, with Chris Long getting it. The conversion was added by Declan Smith.
The Llanelli lead was soon extended when Tom Prydie hit a big kick over for the penalty score.
Prydie's boot was also forcing RGC back into their own 22m line, and Bailey Rae dealt with a difficult bouncing ball to clear the danger.
Multiple errors were compounding RGC's problems, and resulted in another successful penalty for Prydie on the 22 minute mark.
Another error from the restart gave Llanelli to form another attack and the set about attacking RGC through the middle. They were running some powerful lines with Taylor Davies and Ellis Thomas creating some holes in the RGC defence.
They were able to move the ball wide with some numbers on the wing and Ryan Davies took advantage with try number three seconds before half-time.
Another error began the second half when Dion Jones took a quick lineout, but in hindsight was a poor choice as he ended up kicking out on the full and Llanelli took full advantage to attack up to the RGC line.
They again pulled a heart in mouth moment when a pass was nearly intercepted meters from the tryline, but Llanelli couldn't collect the ball.
The homeside would have been disappointed not to have scored with the early pressure and opportunities in that second half spell.
The pressure was piling on the Llanelli line with a couple of scrums and lineouts.
RGC had the option to take a penalty kick at goal but they backed themselves at the lineout but Llanelli stole it and cleared.
Danny Cross went for the big miss pass to Rae on the wing, but it was adjudged to go forward.
Premiership results: Carmarthen 26 Ebbw Vale 18; Bedwas 31 Bridgend 24; Aberavon 52 Cross Keys 15; Bargoed RFC 31 Swansea 26; Newport 7 Pontypridd RFC 46. | then brought back to a 10 point game at halftime, and we felt we probably left seven points out there.
"The big positive was that the boys reacted after the break as we gave them a clear message and they reacted.
"Our scrum did well second half, and when you look at the fact Evan Yardley came down with a virus before the game, Dion Jones is carrying a knock and we had to bring | 84 |
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What Is Balance In Interior Design? | Region Of The Earth'S Interior?
What are the biggest regions on Earth?
The Four Stacks The Earth contains four distinct strata. Numerous geologists think that when the Earth cooled, denser, heavier elements sank to the center while lighter, less dense minerals rose to the surface. As a result, the crust comprises of the lightest elements (rock- basalts and granites) whereas the core is composed of heavy metals (nickel and iron).
The crust is the layer that you live on, and it has been researched and comprehended the most.
The mantle is considerably hotter and can flow.
If you could reach the center of the Earth, you would be compressed into a ball smaller than a marble by the intense heat and pressure of the outer and inner cores.
Its Crust The Earth's Crust is comparable to apple peel. It is significantly thinner than the other three layers. The crust is only 3-5 miles (8 km) thick under the oceans (oceanic crust) and 25 miles (32 km) thick under the continents (continental crust) (continental crust).
The temperatures of the crust range from the air temperature at the surface to around 1600 degrees Fahrenheit (870 degrees Celsius) in the crust's deepest regions. At 350 degrees Fahrenheit, you may bake bread in your oven; at 1600 degrees Fahrenheit, rocks begin to dissolve. The Earth's crust is fragmented into several parts known as plates.
The plates "float" on the soft, plastic mantle underneath the crust. Typically, these plates move freely, but occasionally they become stuck and generate pressure. The increasing pressure causes the rock to deform until it breaks. When this occurs, a quake is the consequence! Observe how thin the Earth's crust is compared to its other layers.
The seven continents and oceanic plates float on the mantle, which is made of significantly hotter and denser material. Granite and basalt are the two primary rock kinds that make up the crust. The majority of the continental crust is formed of granite. The oceanic crust is composed of basalt, a volcanic lava rock.
Oceanic basaltic rocks are significantly more dense and heavier than continental granitic rocks. Consequently, continents ride atop denser oceanic plates. The crust and top layer of the mantle constitute the Lithosphere, a zone of stiff, brittle rock. Asthenosphere describes the asphalt-like layer that lies under the unyielding lithosphere.
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The asthenosphere is the portion of the Earth's mantle responsible for plate movement. The Shroud The mantle is the layer immediately underneath the sima. It is the thickest layer of the planet at 1800 miles. The mantle consists of extremely hot, thick rock. This granite layer even flows like asphalt when subjected to a significant load.
This flow is caused by significant temperature variations between the mantle's base and its surface. The plates of the Earth move because of the movement of the mantle! The temperature of the mantle ranges from around 1600 degrees Fahrenheit at the top to over 4000 degrees Fahrenheit towards the base! Convection Circulations As a result of the mantle's greater density and thickness, the plates "float" on it like oil on water.
Many geologists believe that convection currents cause the mantle to "flow." Extremely hot material in the deepest section of the mantle rises, cools, sinks, and then rises, cools, sinks, and repeats the cycle to generate convection currents. The next time you cook a liquid in a pan, such as soup or pudding, you may observe convection currents moving through the liquid.
When convection currents travel through the mantle, the crust also moves. The crust rides for free on these currents. A conveyor belt at a factory transports boxes like convection currents in the mantle transport Earth's tectonic plates. Exterior Core The Earth's core resembles a ball of very heated metals.
(4000 degrees F. to 9000 degrees F.) The outer core is so heated that all of the metals within it are in liquid form. The outer core is approximately 1400 miles thick and is around 1800 miles under the crust. The outer core is made of nickel and iron that have been melted. Inner Core The deep core of the Earth contains such high temperatures and pressures that the metals are unable to flow like a liquid and are instead forced to vibrate in place as a solid.
Roughly 800 miles thick, the inner core begins about 4000 miles under the crust. Temperatures may exceed 9000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 45,000,000 pounds per square inch. This is three million times the air pressure at sea level! Answer the following questions with your partner on a sheet of paper.
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Identify the four layers of the Earth in sequence from the surface to the core.
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What factors induce the mantle to "flow"? What are the two primary metals comprising the outer and inner cores? Describe in your own words the formation of the Earth's layers. "The Four Layers" will be of assistance.
Which region is the largest?
Population of the World by Region in 2050 –
World Share
1 Asia 5,290,263,118 54.3 %
2 Africa 2,489,275,458 25.6 %
3 Latin America and the Caribbean 762,432,366 7.8 %
4 Europe 710,486,313 7.3 %
5 Northern America 425,200,368 4.4 %
6 Oceania 57,376,36 | 1,279 |
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Successful Weight Loss
When Schmidt Group was looking to reduce truck weight for its dry-bulk fleet it found the answer in Mouvex screw compressors
It has been more than two decades now since new European Union (EU) directives began regulating the amount of emissions that on-road diesel-powered trucks can emit into the atmosphere.
The first, Euro 1, came into being in 1992, and the EU has now progressed to Euro 6, which governs all trucks that have been manufactured for on-road use in European countries since the beginning of 2014. That said, most of the trucks that currently traverse Europe's roads are of the Euro 4 or Euro 5 variety, whose regulations came into effect in 2005 and 2008, respectively.
Specifically, these EU directives, no matter their stage, put limits on the amount of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter (PM) that can be expelled into the atmosphere through the exhaust of diesel-powered trucks. Over the years, these limits have become stricter as EU members have looked for ways to lower the amount of impurities that find their way into the continent's air.
For example, in Euro 1 the CO, HC, NOx and PM thresholds were 4.5, 1.1, 8.0 and 0.612 grams per kilowatt hour (g/kWh), respectively. By comparison, the specifics of the Euro 6 regulation place the amount of CO emissions at 1.5 g/kWh, HC at 0.13 g/kWh, NOx at 0.40 g/kWh and PM at 0.01 g/kWh.
These constantly changing emission thresholds have caused truck fleet owners to re-examine how their vehicles are outfitted. In addition to new engine models that are designed to reduce emissions, an ancillary consequence regards the actual weight of the vehicle and its payload, which is also governed by EU regulation.
Responding to stricter diesel-emissions standards and weight requirements of the new Euro 6 regulation Schmidt Group has fitted its dry-bulk fleet with MH6 Series Screw Compressors (inset) from Mouvex and Hydrocar
Tipping the scales
"Euro 6 is a regulation for limiting exhaust in Europe, and we are really taking care of pollution," explained Sascha Pachnicke, product manager for Dienstleistung Warenwirtschaft Spedition (DWS) GmbH, Heppenheim, Germany, a distributor of compressor equipment for use on dry-bulk trucks, trailers and silo containers since 2006.
"Through these regulations to control exhaust there is less space on the truck left because the exhaust system on a Euro 6 truck is much bigger and heavier than on the Euro 5, for example. The Euro 6 regulation was created to have cleaner air coming out of the exhaust, yet you are only allowed to carry 40 tons. If the truck is heavier, you have to reduce some of the weight."
That has created a balancing act for the trucking fleets that transport dry bulk materials and products across the continent.
Specifically, most truck chassis that are outfitted with transport tanks have a maximum weight limit of 14 tons. Meanwhile, most customers request from their shippers the ability to handle a minimum payload of 25 tons. Much more than the upper limit of either threshold and you are bumping up against the 40-ton regulatory ceiling.
The trick, then, is to use a truck and trailer that is as light as possible, allowing it not only to carry at least 25 tons, but often more. This is a benefit for both the end user, who gets more product shipped at one time, and the shipper, who realizes an economic benefit from being able to ship larger payloads.
One bulk logistics company that has been threading the needle of the EU directives regarding diesel emissions since the dawn of the Euro 1 era is Schmidt Group. Founded in 1948 in Heilbronn, Germany, where its corporate headquarters remain, Schmidt Group offers transport services via road tankers and silo containers, which are contracted to ship all types of dry bulk goods, including, but not limited to, plastic pellets, cement, lime, starch, powder, sugar and animal food.
Schmidt has grown to comprise a fleet featuring 800 trucks, 150 of which are used to transport hazardous chemicals, 5,000 intermodal containers, 28 subsidiary locations situated throughout Europe and eight regional dispatch centres. In total, Schmidt Group annually delivers 4.6 million tonnes of dry bulk products.
A member of the Schmidt group family for nearly half its existence or, to be exact, 30 years, Michael Hoyer is the company's fleet manager and has responsibility for the entire fleet of rolling stock, including ensuring that all vehicles meet the tenets of the various EU diesel-emission directives.
"There was a significant change when the Euro 5 emission systems came, but then by 2014 the new Euro 6 had arrived, which means that the same truck has a weight increase of 200-300 kg," said Hoyer. "Therefore, Schmidt was looking for a technical solution to having the same payload while not reducing the benefits of the application or the size of the system. The main point was to find out how the minimum payload of 25 tons could be realized without exceeding the overall weight."
Making weight
One area that Hoyer and Schmidt Group targeted for potential weight reduction was the truck-mounted compressors that were being used to load and unload the tanks and silo containers. The compressors Schmidt was using were rather complicated to install and maintain, and required a mounting frame and bracket, and special shaft, which added to the overall weight of the system.
As luck would have it, a trip to a trade fair in <|fim_middle|> Hydrocar," recalled Hoyer. "A standard compressor has a weight of around 300 kg, but the MH6 has a total weight of 80-100 kg, which delivers the required weight savings."
Specifically, the 'MH6' is the MH6 Series Screw Compressor, which Auxerre, France-based Mouvex developed in conjunction with Bologna, Italy-based power take-off (PTO) manufacturer Hydrocar in 2010. The MH6 is the world's first all-in-one screw compressor/PTO unit, and was developed as a weight-saving answer to the new Euro 6 regulations. DWS has been the official distributor for Mouvex equipment in southwest Germany since 2009 and was one of the first companies to put an MH6 compressor in the field.
In addition to the upwards of 70 percent weight reduction offered by the MH6, other operational benefits include the absence of free-turning drive parts, which increase operator safety; no need for additional installation space; no need for separate oil changes since the system is integrated into the truck's gearbox; no need for mounting brackets and frames, or cardan shafts; quieter operation; and compatibility with a wide array of truck configurations, from 4x2 short wheelbase to larger 6x2 and 6x4 designs. Flow rates range from 325-600 cbm/hr, and the MH6 can handle solids up to 15mm in diameter and 60mm in length.
Schmidt tested an MH6 compressor on one of its vehicles throughout 2013 and the results spoke for themselves. "At the end of the year, the MH6 showed in the day-to-day testing that what was promised was reached," said Hoyer. "The conclusion was that during the one year of testing we were very well supported by Mouvex and DWS, and had real communication with our drivers and fleet management on how the MH6 works, and at the end of the day, it was a good relationship. We came to the conclusion that this was the way to move forward, with the MH6."
The reduced weight of the MH6 is also holds ancillary benefits for Schmidt fleet drivers. "With the weight benefit, it was possible for Schmidt to increase the size and comfort of the cabin to give more benefits to the driver to feel more comfortable, safer for long-distance driving with no risks in using the MH6," said Hoyer. "It was a target of ours to support the employees and motivate them for the global benefit of the organization and our customers."
The most successful weight-loss programmes are those that target specific areas to trim, then identify the best ways to reach those weight reduction goals without adversely affecting the whole organism. In that way, the MH6 Series Screw Compressor was the perfect weight loss solution for a dry-bulk haulier like Schmidt Group.
"Due to the weight reduction you can put more load on the truck so you can gain more money through transporting or unloading; that's an extra 200 kg on one truck, which can also be used for more luxury in the cabin for the driver," said Pachnicke.
From his perspective, Hoyer is looking forward to the day when every Schmidt Group truck is fitted with an MH6 compressor, and has even offered to help Mouvex and Hydrocar field test the next-generation compressor, the MH10, which is currently in development.
"Schmidt is always looking for the newest technical solution for all of its equipment and because of the capabilities of the MH6 we are proud to work with the Mouvex and DWS organisations," Hoyer said. "The target is clearly to work with Mouvex in the future, to standardise Schmidt Group on these compressors."
This article was written by Philippe Voilly, market & product manager DM for Mouvex. Mouvex is part of PSG, a Dover company, based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA
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1 Michael Hoyer, left, fleet manager for Schmidt Group, and André Saam, dry bulk fleet manager, have optimised the weight and driver comfort in the dry bulk fleet by switching to MH6
2 Schmidt's truck fleet carries such diverse dry bulk products as plastic pellets, sugar, powder, cement, starch and animal food to end-users all across Europe
3 Schmidt's Ludwigshafen facility features 60 storage silos, the contents of which the company's 800-strong fleet of dry-bulk trucks and trailers transport to customers all over Europe
MH6 Series screw compressor | 2013 led to the discovery of the perfect compressor solution.
"We were attending a trade fair and DWS presented us with the new MH6 technology from Mouvex and | 36 |
JMC Wealth Management founder Julie Murphy talks to Michael Kitces about how her focus on money and emotions led to strategic alliances with not only attorneys and CPAs, but also psychologists and meditation specialists.
Welcome back to the 90th episode of the Financial Advisor Success<|fim_middle|> and meditation specialists as well. | podcast.
This week's guest is Julie Murphy. Julie is the founder and chief visionary officer of JMC Wealth Management, a dual-registered advisory firm in Chicago with a team of seven that serves more than 200 active clients with $200 million of assets under management, on top of generating nearly $300,000 a year in recurring financial planning fees. What's unique about Julie, though, is her focus on what she calls "financial healing," with financial planning conversations that are heavily focused around the intersections of money and emotions, and energy flow to the point that Julie is not only in traditional strategic alliances with attorneys and CPAs, but also has what she calls more esoteric strategic alliances with psychologists | 148 |
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As any survey of Islamic history will show, Muslims spoke about the rights and wrongs of employing armed force in a variety of ways. This presentation deals with one of these. The work of jurists in developing judgments pertaining to armed struggle provides one of the most extensive examples of the more general attempt by human communities to regul...
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Members of the St. John Sheriff's Office participate in a fun basketball game against St. Joan of Arc middle school students in honor of Catholic Schools Week.
LAPLACE — Sheriff Mike Tregre and several officers from the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office were excited to participate in a fun basketball game with the middle school basketball team February 4, 2022 at St. Joan of Arc School in LaPlace.
The basketball game was one of the activities held in celebration of Catholic Schools Week. St. Joan of Arc held special activities throughout the week to pay tribute to those who serve the community.
The basketball game opened with a prayer for officers. The third graders also made gift bags as a token of appreciation, thanking officers for protecting the community. All the officers agreed the game was a great way to build good relationships with young people.
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Sheriff Mike Tregre delivers a pep talk | 21 |
With a name like New York Tomato you might expect American<|fim_middle|> events. There are so many festivals, it's hard to keep track of them all. But the Melbourne Festival was one of Australia's first international arts festivals. From music, to performance, and visual art, the Melbourne Festival has ensured there are enough multi-arts events to keep you feeling the love during October. | style burgers and fries. But this little gem of a cafe is actually named after it's location on the corner of New Street and York Street, in Richmond. We love the variety of food available from their menu. They have everything from sandwiches to hot-pots, and they cater for different diets so there's something for everyone!
It's always interesting when people mix different elements in design, so naturally, when we saw that an artist had embroidered floral patterns onto solid silver jewelery, we were intrigued. Caro Bärtling says that her designs are made to rouse memories in us even when we see them for the first time. That's why we love her embroidered silver bangles.
If you take a stroll through North Melbourne you might be lucky enough to stumble across Arthur's Circus. Step right up and into the door to discover the most amazing collection of vintage toys, handmade trinkets, collectables, bits and bobs, artwork, and almost anything else you can imagine. Arthur's Circus is a treasure trove full of lovely, nostalgic things you can decorate and play with. The store is reopening next week after a winter break and definitely worth the wander.
Spring time usually means the beginning of Melbourne's festival season during which we can spend the warmer months of the year enjoying a multitude of art, fashion, food and music | 270 |
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Founded in 1978, the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is the largest and one of the most effective nonprofit conservation organizations in Tennessee. Working across the entire state, The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 300,000 acres and manages 19 nature preserves in Tennessee for nature and people. Along the way, The Nature Conservancy in Tennessee has helped create or significantly expand 29 State Natural Areas, 12 State Wildlife Management Areas and 2 National Wildlife Refuges in Tennessee. The list of special places we have helped safeguard for future generations includes Radnor Lake, Savage Gulf, the Walls of Jericho, the Duck River, Pogue Creek Canyon and Taylor Hollow.
Our Weed Wrangle® site on March 4, 2017 will be Taylor Hollow, which we bought and protected in 1978. Taylor Hollow is a 163-acre State Natural Area known for its wildflowers and rare plants.
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The William Shaver House is a historic house on the east side of School Street, north of 4th Street, in Hardy, Arkansas. It is a single story fieldstone structure, with a side gable roof and a projecting gable-roofed porch. The porch is supported by stone columns with an elliptical arch, and a concrete base supporting a low stone wall. The main facade is three bays wide, with the porch and entrance at the center, and flanking sash windows. The house is a fine local example of a vernacular stone house, built c. 1947 for a working-class family.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 199<|fim_middle|> nearby house built by the same builder around the same time
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Over 6 (yes 6!) layers of hand cut glass are part of this pendant, requiring careful attention to placement, many visits to the kiln over days, hand cutting and polishing. The end results is a very thick piece, ~ 3/8". The pendant is finished with a heavily silvered art bale that will accept your up to 1/4" chain or chord. Dichroic glass is ALWAYS more spectacular in person, monitors do not do it justice. Please note that I do not enhance colors in my photos<|fim_middle|> helpful care tips.
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You may have heard that the best CRM for real estate can boost your profitability significantly, but you may be on the fence about moving forward<|fim_middle|> in, the best CRM for real estate is one that exceeds your expectations in each of these areas. These are areas that can help you to save money and even to earn more money through your efforts. Because of this, the right CRM can truly be a financially rewarding tool to invest in. | with this investment. A CRM for real estate can be a significant expense to endure, and this is particularly true if you are just starting out in the industry and do not have a full pipeline of business to provide you with steady income yet. While there is a financial cost associated with buying a CRM software program, there are also significant benefits associated with using it. In fact, the right CRM program can help your business in each of these ways.
Agents without a CRM typically use a spreadsheet, such as in Excel or another similar program, to track and maintain leads. This is one option available, but it is not the best one. With a CRM, you can more easily organize, sort, filter and manage your leads. These programs provide you with the ability to better track communications with clients as well. For example, you can record details about your phone conversations or link emails to the contact. Then, you simply pull up the contact, and all of the details and related emails are visible for you to view.
The best CRM for real estate also provides real estate agents with the ability to create marketing campaigns. You no longer will need to manually create and launch campaigns, and you do not have to physically schedule these campaigns around your other business activities. The entire process can be automated, and you can even schedule a campaign launch days or weeks in advance. Some programs allow you to schedule recurring events, which truly takes the time and effort out of reaching out to your leads.
As you can see, using the best CRM for real estate can save you time and hassle while reducing your stress level at work. More than that, some programs provide robust reporting tools. These can be used to create detailed, comprehensive reports that analyze marketing campaigns, track leads and more. Such information can be invaluable in helping you to determine which leads to touch with a personal phone call, to establish new marketing campaigns and more.
While there are many CRM programs available for you to invest | 391 |
Cosmic Adventure is Scott Tixier's second album. It was recorded at Avatar Studios in New York, produced by Donald Brown, following his debut album Brooklyn Bazaar. The single "Dig It (feat. Pedrito Martinez) was available in August 2016 and the full album released on September 9, 2016 by Sunnyside Records.
On August 15, 2016, "Dig It" and "100,000 Hours" were featured on NPR for the show Morning Edition hosted by David Greene, during This Week in Politics.
Morning Edition is among the highest rated public radio shows.
On September 1, the album was featured by the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) in the Black Grooves September issue.
Cosmic Adventure was selected one of the Best Albums of 2016 by DownBeat magazine.
Track listing
"Maze Walker (feat. Pedrito Martinez)" – 4:11
"Dig It (feat. Pedrito Martinez)" – 6:14
"100,000 Hours" – 4:53
"Troublant Bolero" – 5:23
"Mr Tix" – 5:31
"Misty" – 4:21
"Nil's Landing" – 3:50
"King of Sorrow" – 6:12
"Beam Me to Mars (feat. Chris Potter)" – 5:58
Personnel
Scott Tixier – violin
Yvonnick Prene – harmonica
Glenn Zaleski – piano
Luques Curtis – bass
Justin Brown – drums
Pedrito Martinez – congas
Chris Potter – tenor saxophone
Liner notes
"Listening to Scott's playing makes me very happy because the future of modern jazz violin is in very good hands. He displays a musical maturity in this album<|fim_middle|>
Corelli Savarez - Executive Producer
Schertler Group - Executive Producer
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Sunnyside Records albums | which is surprising considering his young age, drawing inspiration from deep inside and not rehashing what others have played before him, which makes his style original. He is surrounded by great players, all top musicians who help make this album a strong musical statement." – Jean-Luc Ponty
Technical credits
Dave Darlington - Mixing/Mastering
François Zalacain - Executive Producer
Donald Brown - Producer
Franck Bohbot - Photography
Zach Harter - Graphic Design
Rachel Foley - Set Design
Jean-Luc Ponty - Liner Notes | 114 |
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I found the best results was after drying and styling my hair, spray a few from top to ends and allow to dry into the hair and it leaves a subtle shine and hair definitely feels a lot healthier and less dry. The fragrance for me was fresh, almost herbal but not too overpowering just clean and lasts throughout the day, i would recommend it to anyone who needs a quick freshening up with their hair or if they have dry hair in particular, but don't expect shine like a serum would give since its a light formula so its more natural looking.
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Rich formulas that deliver intensive conditioning from the root to the tip smoothing the look of even the most rebellious parts of the hair. Hair feels | 249 |
<|fim_middle|> way. | NexTech AR Solutions (CSE:NTAR-OTC:NEXCF) Chief Executive Officer Evan Gappelberg sat down with Steve Darling from Proactive Investors Vancouver to talk about the disruptive augmented reality company. Gappelberg talked about their verticals in the company including the "Try it on" platform that will change to way consumers shop.
Gappelberg also told Proactive about revenue for January 2019 and he sees the company moving forward this year and next.
AT NexTech AR Solutions Corp. we are developing a proprietary Augmented Reality (AR) advertising platform that uniquely engages consumers by connecting them to brands and retail locations through a fully immersive AR experience.
With a focus on our two core technologies, augmented reality and holographic telepresence, NexTech AR offers innovative solutions that can be harnessed across a wide range of industries. Harnessing these technologies allows us to bridge the physical and the digital worlds, pushing the boundaries of branded communication and user experience in a disruptive new | 205 |
Retailers embracing green wave to further<|fim_middle|> to drive greener changes across the value chain-from influencing suppliers to advocating consumers. Those retail brands pursuing LEED certifications normally position green retail spaces and/or green supply chains as part of their sustainability strategies," Wang said.
The USGBC report said that from now to 2030, green-minded younger consumers, who feel they have a responsibility for the planet's future, are expected to emerge as the backbone of China's consumer market as well as labor market.
So, green and sustainable practices should inform retail brands' business strategies in China, industry experts said.
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Steady uptick in production at factories
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Retailers in China are increasingly embracing green practices as Chinese consumers care for environmental protection and sustainable development, experts said.
Huang Qianyi, 29, an office worker in Beijing, considers herself an inveterate spender who can perhaps stop shopping only by chopping off her own hands, in a manner of speaking. This year, she decided to become a discerning consumer by embracing environmental consciousness and steering clear of profligacy.
That decision can be traced to the fact that Huang's overflowing wardrobe is stuffed with all kinds of dresses, some of which she has not even worn yet.
Her dilemma today is whether she should give them all away or simply stop buying new clothes.
A garment-recycling initiative launched by Sweden-based clothing and cosmetic retailer H&M came to Huang's rescue.
The H&M initiative encourages consumers in China to recycle clothing. It offers 15 percent discount coupons to consumers who trade in their used clothes to its stores.
"I may have been a habitual shopper, but I am also all for environmental protection. I sometimes feel guilty when buying too many clothes. My worries are now finally resolved," Huang said.
According to a recent report by the United States Green Building Council, "green" and "sustainable "have become buzzwords among retailers in China.
"Sustainability is no longer a 'better-to-have' option. International retail brands, which own businesses in China, have made commitments one after another to accelerate green innovation, in terms of raw material technology, supply chain supervision and business mode," said Wang Jing, director of USGBC North Asia.
The trend was in evidence during the online shopping festival called Singles Day on Nov 11. Alibaba Group's online marketplace Taobao offered virtual "environmentally friendly advocate" certificates to e-shoppers who agreed to cut down on the use of plastic bags and other packaging materials received from couriers or deliverymen.
Swiss food giant Nestle and Aupres of Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido replaced their cardboard boxes usually heavily Scotch-taped with zip boxes, in order to cut down on the use of the plastic adhesive tape.
US-based McKinsey Global Institute said in a recent report that the global business environment is veering toward environmentally friendly building technologies as demand for greener lifestyles increases.
Wang from USGBC said that in recent years, the organization has witnessed growing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED participation, a globally recognized green building certification system, in China's retail sector.
According to USGBC data, by the end of July, it had received 5,833 LEED applications in the Chinese market, and 987, or 17 percent, were from the retail sector. Prominent brands among the applicants included 7-Eleven, McDonald's, Starbucks, Nike, Swarovski, Zara, Burberry, Gucci and Prada.
"In the post-pandemic era, retailers with LEED certification offer consumers with a safer and healthier user experience," Wang said.
In an interview with Beijing-based fashion media outlet WWD, Torquil Mclntosh, co-founder of British architecture office Sybarite, said that in the wake of COVID-19, retail stores should leave enough safe space for consumers. In this way, every inch of their skin would be safe and comfortable.
With the new concept, retail stores can give full play to their imagination to create fresh shopping experiences, he told WWD.
"Retail brands have a vast potential | 709 |
Attracting luxury retailer tenants has helped Stoleshnikov leapfrog Tverskaya Ulitsa as Moscow's prime location.
For the first time in a decade a street in Russia has made it to the top 10 list of most expensive shopping avenues in the world, a report released last week revealed.
According to a report by Cushman & Wakefield, Stoleshnikov Pereulok in central Moscow has overtaken the famed Tverskaya Ulitsa as the most expensive street in Russia and risen to 10th place among the costliest shopping locations on the planet.
New York's Upper Fifth Avenue, Hong Kong's Causeway Bay and Paris' Champs-Elysees make up the top three most expensive streets in the world.
Stoleshnikov moved up in the ranking after its rental rates rose 20 percent over the last year, climbing to 4,750 euros ($5,890) per square meter per year.
"A number of luxury brands, including Moncler, Gucci, Swatch, Tourbillon, Jaguar, signed rental deals last year to be present in Stoleshnikov, which shows the attractiveness of this area," said Maxim Karbasnikoff, the head of retail services at Cushman & Wakefield in Russia.
Tverskaya Ulitsa, Russia's equivalent of New York's Fifth Avenue, at the same time was loosing clientele due to the falling<|fim_middle|> of the third quarter this year the volume of free space on Moscow's main streets had grown to 8 percent from 5 percent in 2013; and on secondary streets, to 17 percent from 10 percent, analysts at real estate consultancy JLL told Gazeta.ru in October. | ruble, unstable economy and the introduction of paid parking in the center, Karbasnikoff said.
In the current situation falling sales volumes could not compensate for the high rental rates on Tverskaya, he said.
On a citywide scale, the amount of unoccupied space at main shopping locations is growing. By the end | 67 |
Just like humans, plants have primary life processes (organic compounds known as primary metabolites) without which they wouldn't be able to sustain life, and secondary life processes that, although not critical to life, do ensure their long-term survival. These secondary metabolites are ones that exist to help protect the plant from the ravages of pests and diseases. These range from insects and mites, to nematodes (root-infesting worms) through to pathogenic microorganisms, including particular types of bacteria, fungi and viruses.
We are<|fim_middle|> That is except when they are not fresh or have been heavily irradiated. Unfortunately, this is the fate of most of the commercial herbs and spices now available in our supermarkets.
That's why consuming fresh organic herbs and spices, or organic ones carefully sundried, is much preferable to using the common dried forms sold for culinary purposes in supermarkets. That's also why Pukka is synonymous with the highest grade, organic herbs and spices available anywhere in the world, be they in Pukka organic teas or Pukka botanical food supplements. | increasingly aware that many of the very compounds that protect plants from attack may also have an immensely beneficial and protective effect on the humans that ingest them. We often refer to these compounds as phytonutrients. They help prevent damage to cells throughout the body, they regulate inflammatory responses in the body and genetic expression, and they protect our all-important genetic code, DNA. Compounds found in plants as diverse as turmeric root, grape skins and seeds, broccoli (and other cruciferous vegetables), leafy vegetables, garlic, carrots and many herbs and spices, have been shown to reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Experts believe that eating plenty of nutrient-dense, phytonutrient-rich foods promotes healthy aging.
Carotenoids: these provide the yellow, orange and red colours in fruits and vegetables, such beta-carotene and other carotenoids in carrots (antioxidant), lutein in marigolds (helpful against macular degeneration and cataracts) and lycopene in tomatoes (protective against heart disease and some cancers).
Curcuminoids: found in turmeric root, a powerful antioxidant, immune modulator and anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective agent.
Flavonoids: such as catechins from green tea that may prevent some forms of cancer, hespiridins from citrus fruits that help to reduce inflammation and thereby chronic disease; and flavonols found in apples and berries as well as kale and onions that may be used to reduce the risk of asthma, some forms of cancer and coronary heart disease.
Resveratrol: a well-known and popular one found in red grape skin and red wine, linked to reduced levels of heart disease.
Glucosinolates: from cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and kale that have been to reduce cancer risk and high blood pressure.
Different varieties of the same crop can often contain quite different levels of secondary metabolites depending on where they have grown and when they were harvested. Unripe fruits and vegetables may often contain fewer secondary metabolites than ripe ones, and artificial ripening may prevent the development of the same, full complement of phytonutrients as compared with sun-ripened crops.
You can often taste the difference, the taste buds on your tongue being particularly sensitive to phytonutrients. If a fruit or veg is lacking in flavor or taste, chances are it's got a low quotient of phytonutrients. If the flavor is full, the reverse may be true. This is particularly evident with crops like tomatoes.
With some crops, younger plants can have higher levels of phytonutrients. Broccoli sprouts, for example, contain much higher levels of the sulforaphane (a glucosinolate derivative) than mature broccoli heads.
To discourage consumption by pests, many of these powerful antioxidants have evolved with strong flavours, like bitterness. In some of the commonly grown commercial vegetable and fruit crops, not only are crops treated with pesticides (thereby reducing the plants' need to evolve their own defenses), but the amounts of these bitter-tasting or strong flavoured metabolites have been purposely bred out of them to make them more palatable – and more commercially viable!
One of the reasons that herbs are so powerful is because they're very rich in these secondary metabolites. Most people consume relatively small quantities of them compared with staple plant foods and the more bland the food, the less they contain. While many people will add them for flavour, they come laced with a bounty of positive health effects as well. | 732 |
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Rik Henderson · 27 January 2012
Back at the end of 2010, Pocket-lint got its hands on a Blue Microphones THX-certified Yeti USB mic and was extremely impressed. For its £129.99, it offered studio quality audio capture at a fraction of the price of a professional equivalent. It was a podcasters' dream. Until now...
The company has upped<|fim_middle|> your pets (and yourself) | its game further, with a refreshed, higher-end version of the mic, the Yeti Pro. Weighing in at £229, it's not cheap, but neither are its talents.
Blue Microphones claims that it is the world's first USB microphone to offer 24-bit/192 kHz digital recording resolution with an analogue XLR output, and is therefore as comfortable in an amateur podcaster's bedroom as it is in a bone fide recording studio.
It comes with a similar weighty adjustable stand to the normal Yeti and can also be hung from a boom, but it adds a separate analogue stereo path to a proprietary analogue to digital conversion chip in order to keep captured audio pure when fed through into a top class mixing desk.
Like its older brother, it also offers numerous multi-pattern recording modes to select, each with their own unique properties. There's a switch on the back that can be set to record in stereo, cardioid, omnidirectional or bidirectional, each of which giving a different ambience as well as being able to pick up sounds from multiple directions.
If you're on your own, for example, you'd perhaps stick to stereo, where your voice would hit either side of the mic and be separated in your recording software of choice. If you have guests sat around a table, however, you may want to choose omnidirectional, so that everybody's speech is picked up evenly. In short, it's as versatile as you'd like.
The other knob on the rear is for gain control, but we found it worked best at dead centre and volume should be controlled in a recording suite.
The volume control on the front is for attached headphones, should you be so inclined, and the mute button is handy if the microphone doubles for Skype or such like.
In use is where the Blue Microphones Yeti Pro comes into its own. The audio quality that can be achieved by this consumer device is staggering. Having worked in radio and TV in the past, we can safely say that, with the right software, professional standards are not just achievable but consistently so. Indeed, any loss of clarity you'll find comes from a conversion of lossless audio to an mp3 for podcast duties, not the mic itself. And that's through USB. Hook it up to an analogue desk or preamp via the included XLR cables and bravissimo!
You only get stereo through analogue but it proves that the "Pro" ain't just for show.
The Yeti Pro is compatible with both PC (Windows 7, Vista or XP, with 256MB RAM minimum) and Mac (OS X 10.6.4 or higher, with 256MB RAM minimum) and is plug and play. It's available now.
Pocket-lint is also offering one lucky reader the chance to win their own Blue Microphones Yeti Pro USB microphone. All you have to do is follow Pocket-lint on Twitter (@Pocketlint) and retweet this hands-on test including the hashtag #plyeti.
We will draw the winner from the qualifying tweets after the closing date of 3 February. The successful candidate will then get the mic, simple.
Please ensure that you read Pocket-lint's terms and conditions, and we must point out that this competition in only open to entries from the UK and Ireland.
NOTE: The competition is now closed, you can carry on retweeting this fine hands-on if you like, but you will no longer be in with a chance of winning the Yeti Pro.
The winner of the Blue Microphones Yeti Pro USB microphone is (as drawn completely by random from all the qualifying tweets)... Dum, dum, dum... @lexplex_. We will be contacting you shortly via Twitter (direct message) in order to get your details. Congratulations!
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Middlesex is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. Middlesex was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1913, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 6, 1913. The borough's name derives from Middlesex, England. Middlesex is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The governing body consists of a Mayor and a<|fim_middle|> proclamation.
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Morristown Municipal Airport | Borough Council comprising six council members, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle.
The Borough form of government used by Middlesex, the most common system used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The seven-member governing body is empowered to enact local ordinances, to levy municipal taxes and conduct the affairs of the community. In almost all cases, it can review and approve the actions of other Middlesex Borough, committees and agencies. The Mayor and Borough Council conducts all of its business during monthly meetings open to the public. All Legislative powers of the Borough are exercised by the Mayor and Council. These powers can take the form of a resolution, ordinance or | 239 |
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by ANDREA FRENCH Section Editor
Monroe Township residents and students are wondering how the schools are going to be able to make up the six days lost due to<|fim_middle|> make up a few school days, it ended up snowing and we had off again! It was a crazy couple of weeks," says sophomore Taylor Zeni.
The following week, students had off on Tuesday, November 13 for a staff in-service, but schools were opened in another effort to make us as many days as possible.
At that point, we are left with four days to make up from the original six. However, the school calendar had two snow days built into the calendar, leaving us with only two days to make up.
There are no more free days floating around to chose from, except for spring break and the end of the school year. As of right now, Monday, March 25; Monday, April 1; Tuesday, June 25; and Wednesday, June 26 are all days that students will now be in school.
Monday, March 25, the first day of spring break, will now be a half day of school. Monday, April 1, the day after Easter, is now a full school day. Though only two days need to be made up, four days were added to build in two additional snow days. If the two snow days are not used, the two Mondays taken from spring break will be returned.
"I am really upset that we are going to have to add all of these days to our school calendar. I feel bad for all of the people who planned vacations and things of that nature on the days that we were supposed to be off, but now have school. I just hope that we don't have any more snow days to make this whole situation worse," says sophomore Samantha Fasbach.
Graduation and final days cannot be changed. Two half days will be added to the end of the school year, but finals will all remain on the same days (6/17,6/18,6/19,6/20). Students will be required to come to school these last two days, and graduation will remain on Monday, June 24.
The revised school schedule is currently posted on the district website here .
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Coronavirus Vaccine Authorized in the United Kingdom | Hurricane Sandy. Therefore, there will have to be some changes to the school calendar in order to meet the 180 day requirement.
The six days that schools were closed were Monday, October 29; Tuesday, October 30; Wednesday, October 31; Thursday, November 1; Friday, November 2; and Monday November 5. Tuesday, November 6 was Election Day, meaning that schools were already scheduled to be off. Therefore, that day did not count against us. Also, in that same week, schools were scheduled to be off Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9 for the NJEA convention, which was canceled.
"When we had off for a whole week, I was so surprised yet unhappy. I felt sad for all of the people who suffered due to Hurricane Sandy," says sophomore Catarina Santo.
In an attempt to make up days, school was rescheduled to be held on Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9. Ironically, there was snow on Wednesday evening into Thursday morning, closing schools on Thursday.
"I could not believe that when we tried to | 230 |
The Multi-Router is the ultimate joinery machine for small shops. If its face frames, doors, or drawers, in the custom cabinet shop, the Multi-Router can handle these tasks with surprising ease. For the custom furniture maker it is the Dream Machine that can produce difficult angled and compound angle tenons and mortises in seconds!
The two most time consuming phases of most woodworking projects are sanding and joinery. With the Multi-Router in your shop you can significantly reduce the amount of time and energy that you spend on joinery. Not only will you be able to increase your efficiency and productivity, but you will also improve the quality of your joinery. Think about it: Accurately centered, precision fitting, mortise and tenons; Dovetails that fit together like a dream; Box joints that assemble with ease and accuracy.
The Multi-Router is a precision built, high quality tool that is designed to give you years and<|fim_middle|> experience.
The quality of construction and the compact design of the Multi-Router make it the ideal machine for small shops who are looking for a dependable, durable, machine that will stand up to years of daily use.
Constructed of heavy aluminum castings.
Computer controlled machining of all parts.
Three axis operation: X Axis-8 inches, Y Axis-8 inches, and Z Axis-6 inches.
Precision Linear bearings and hardened steel rods.
Gas cylinder counter balance to offset the weight of the router.
Removable locator pins on work surface table.
Work table tilts to a full 45 degrees.
Accurate scale for height selection of Z axis.
Designed to accommodate most routers.
The Multi-Router system of templates, traced by a ball bearing stylus is an accurate and uncomplicated method of producing woodworking joints. The ball bearing stylus simulates the exact movements of the router bit and the template simulates the exact movements of the piece of wood. Following the template while cutting enables you to produce any type of joint accurately and consistently. Such consistency can not be found with any other machine. Such consistency is vital for producing identical pieces, such as chairs for a dining set.
The Standard Template System is recommended when the woodworker utilizes a dimensionally accurate cutting bit. The Standard Template System consists of fourteen different sized tenon templates.
Variable size templates are used to compensate for dimensionally inaccurate cutting bits. Undersized cutting bits may be caused by sharpening the bit, or by inaccuracies in the original size of the bit. The Variable Size Template System consists of fourteen different sized tenon templates. Each tenon size comes with a set of three inserts marked "A", "B", and "C". A complete system of all of the sizes below contains 42 inserts and 1 master holder. The woodworker selects the size insert that is needed, attaches it to the master, and makes the desired tenon. Of the three sizes "A" is on dimension, "B" will produce a tenon .010″ smaller than "A", and "C" will produce a tenon .010″ smaller than "B." This will give you a tremendous amount of flexibility if you sharpen your bits, or if you machine different species of wood.
In addition to tenon templates, there are five different sized circular tenon templates: 1/2″ – 5/8″, 3/4″, 1″, 1 1/4″. Also available is a dovetail set, a 1/2″ dovetail set, and a 3/8″ or 1/4″ box joint template.
1 year warranty on all parts. Shipping is not included with warranty parts. | years of accurate, dependable service. Thomson linear bearings insure smooth precision movement for your most delicate operations, yet will stand up to the test of day-long production runs.
A unique system of templates and ball bearing-tipped stylus enables you to quickly and accurately produce a wide variety of dimensionally sound precision joints. Seconds is all it takes to create mortises, tenons, box joints, dovetails, even angled and compound angled joinery. The optional pneumatic clamps offer even quicker results for short production runs. The quality of construction and the versatility of the Multi-Router make for a truly remarkable and rewarding woodworking | 124 |
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Crampton, Guy E. (Guy Edwin), Deitrick, William Henley, 1895-1974
Guy E. Crampton and William Henley Deitrick papers and drawings, 1928-1977
Size: 13.5 linear feet Collection ID: MC 00227
This collection contains architectural drawings and specifications, 192<|fim_middle|> event advertisements. The materials address a range of topics related directly to North Carolina State University, including wages paid to non-academic university employees, the Black Orientation program, discrimination on campus, the organization's struggle to procure adequate space for black student organizations, and Pan-African week. The materials also pertain to the National Strike, Black Panthers and court cases, and other concerns of the larger African American community. The Society of Afro-American Culture (SAAC) was chartered with sixty-three members in 1968 as a campus organization open to all students and faculty members of North Carolina State University. It worked to promote an idea of black identity and to encourage advancement of blacks within the university, as well as to encourage nationally affiliated social fraternities and sororities on campus. The organization worked cooperatively on some initiatives with the Progressive Action Commune, Association for the Concerns of African American Graduate Students, and the Black Student Board. The Society of Afro-American Culture remained active through at least 1984, though has since disbanded. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Society of Women Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Section Records, 1975-1995
Size: 2.45 linear feet (4 archival boxes, 1 archival half-box, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: UA 021.497
The Society of Women Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Section records include materials related to the operation and governance of the organization, official correspondence, and materials related to the organization's activities. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) was founded in 1950 as an educational and service ... More
The Society of Women Engineers, North Carolina State University Student Section records include materials related to the operation and governance of the organization, official correspondence, and materials related to the organization's activities. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) was founded in 1950 as an educational and service organization encouraging women to succeed and advance in engineering and leadership. The organization's objectives include educating people about the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the opportunities open to them, as well as encouraging women engineers to attain high levels of achievement. The North Carolina State University student section of the SWE engaged in a variety of related activities including hosting and participating in career fairs, symposia, and conferences. North Carolina State University's Student Section remained active in the SWE as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, State Gay Community Records, 1981-1983
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 archival half box) Collection ID: UA 021.500
The records of the North Carolina State University State Gay Community include clippings, fliers for events and activities the club sponosored, resources on gay lifestyles and issues, an issue of the club's newsletter, and other general information about the club and its activities. The State Gay Community was established at North ... More
The records of the North Carolina State University State Gay Community include clippings, fliers for events and activities the club sponosored, resources on gay lifestyles and issues, an issue of the club's newsletter, and other general information about the club and its activities. The State Gay Community was established at North Carolina State University in or before 1981 to act as a respresentative group for gay students on campus. The club remained active at least through 1983, but has since disbanded. Less
University Archives Photograph Collection, College of Engineering Photographs, 1915-1993 (bulk 1950-1979)
Size: 6.75 linear feet (13 boxes, 1 half box) Collection ID: UA 023.012
The University Archives Photograph Collection, College of Engineering Photographs, 1915-1993, mainly includes photographs of the faculty, staff, and students of various departments within the College of Engineering. A significant number of photographs documents research studies and laboratory work and equipment. Also included are ... More
The University Archives Photograph Collection, College of Engineering Photographs, 1915-1993, mainly includes photographs of the faculty, staff, and students of various departments within the College of Engineering. A significant number of photographs documents research studies and laboratory work and equipment. Also included are photographs of award ceremonies, presentations and conferences, campus buildings, and promotional materials. Engineering classes have been taught since the first semester at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University) in 1889. During the next few decades, specialized engineering curricula were developed, and the first engineering departments were formed. In 1923 these were all brought together under the School of Engineering. Subsequent development has resulted in additional departments, centers, and degree programs. During the 1980s the school became the College of Engineering. Less
Watauga Club Records, 1884-2011
Size: 1.75 linear feet (3 archival storage boxes and 1 halfbox.) Collection ID: MC 00229
The Watauga Club Records contain historical and financial records, correspondence, meeting minutes, membership information, publications, and photographs dating from 1884 to 2001. The collection includes information about the founding in 1884 and the Centennial anniversary in 1984 but focuses primarily on publications about the club ... More
The Watauga Club Records contain historical and financial records, correspondence, meeting minutes, membership information, publications, and photographs dating from 1884 to 2001. The collection includes information about the founding in 1884 and the Centennial anniversary in 1984 but focuses primarily on publications about the club and its members. The Watauga Club was founded in 1884 to strengthen North Carolina agriculture, industry, education, health, statesmanship, art, literature, and moral and spiritual values. The club was instrumental in the founding of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) and continued to be active in educational endeavors. Less | 8-1977, documenting the works of William Henley Deitrick and his successor, Guy E. Crampton. Included are Deitrick's competition winning design for Needham Broughton High School (1928), his modernist Carolina County Club (1948), the prize winning Dorton Arena ... More
This collection contains architectural drawings and specifications, 1928-1977, documenting the works of William Henley Deitrick and his successor, Guy E. Crampton. Included are Deitrick's competition winning design for Needham Broughton High School (1928), his modernist Carolina County Club (1948), the prize winning Dorton Arena (with Matthew Nowicki, 1950 to 1951), and public housing pojects for the Raleigh Housing Authority. Crampton's designs include several buildings for Elon College (1965), the Wake Forest College Stadium (1966), numerous projects for the Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., and many public school buildings. The specifications are for buildings designed by Guy E. Crampton and Associates, including the Wake Forest College Stadium and public schools. William Henley Deitrick was born in Danville, Virginia, in 1895. He graduated from Wake Forest College in 1916. Then he worked as a high school principal for a year in Georgia. During World War I, Deitrick served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army . After the war, he worked as a building contractor from 1919 to 1922. He entered Columbia University, New York in 1922 and studied architecture there until 1924. In 1926 he began practicing architecture. During his professional career Deitrick earned many distinctions. He sold his firm to associate Guy E. Crampton upon his retirement in 1959. Guy Edwin Crampton, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C. on 19 September 1913. From 1934 to 1940 he was a draftsman in the Supervising Architect's Office of the Federal Works Agency. He graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor of architecture in 1939. Between 1940 and 1949 Crampton worked for several different architectural firms. In 1950 he became an associate of William Henley Deitrick and Associates. In 1959 the firm changed its name to Guy E. Crampton and Associates with Crampton as a general partner. Crampton retired in 1976. Less
North Carolina State University, Division of Student Affairs, Department of Campus Activities Records, 1951-1992
Size: 2.5 linear feet (1 carton, 1 flat folder) Collection ID: UA 016.056
The records of the Department of Campus Activities in the Division of Student Affairs contain photographs and subject files conerning the student union and topical issues affecting student welfare and safety. The Department of Campus Activities, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs, encourages and supports the growth and ... More
The records of the Department of Campus Activities in the Division of Student Affairs contain photographs and subject files conerning the student union and topical issues affecting student welfare and safety. The Department of Campus Activities, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs, encourages and supports the growth and development of the whole student. As a cornerstone of out-of-class learning, the department enhances the academic mission of the university through programs and resources that promote leadership, diversity, critical thinking, creativity, social interaction and community. Less
North Carolina State University, Office of Alumni Relations Publications, 1917-2019
Size: 7.75 linear feet (1 carton, 12 boxes, 1 half box) Collection ID: UA 010.200
This collection contains miscellaneous publications, the Alumni Directory of 1987, 1997, and 2003, and issues of the Alumni Magazine from 1917 to 2019. The Office of Alumni Relations was formerly known as Alumni Affairs.
North Carolina State University, Office of Finance and Administration, Division of Environmental Health and Safety Records, 1969-2006
Size: 4.45 linear feet (5 archival boxes, 1 flat folder, 1 carton); 46 megabytes Collection ID: UA 003.020
The records of the NCSU Office of Finance and Administration, Division of Environmental Health and Safety contain manuals, correspondence, meeting notes, and newsletters regarding safety and health practices at North Carolina State University, 1969 - 2006. The mission of the NCSU Environmental Health and Safety Division is to provide ... More
The records of the NCSU Office of Finance and Administration, Division of Environmental Health and Safety contain manuals, correspondence, meeting notes, and newsletters regarding safety and health practices at North Carolina State University, 1969 - 2006. The mission of the NCSU Environmental Health and Safety Division is to provide educational, technical, advisory, and operational support to the campus community by working in cooperation with university personnel to protect the environment and promote a safe and healthy workplace. Less
North Carolina State University, Office of Finance and Business, Chinqua-Penn Plantation Records, 1863-2002
Size: 209.7 linear feet (79 cartons, 26 flat boxes, 4 boxes, 2 legal boxes, 6 card boxes, 1 artifact box, 14 flat folders, 2 tubes) Collection ID: UA 003.011
The Chinqua-Penn Plantation records contain the papers of the Penn family (1863-1975, bulk 1923-1946) as well as the records of the management of the property by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina State University, and the Chinqua-Penn Foundation (1921-1926, 1957-2002, bulk 1965-2002). This collection ... More
The Chinqua-Penn Plantation records contain the papers of the Penn family (1863-1975, bulk 1923-1946) as well as the records of the management of the property by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina State University, and the Chinqua-Penn Foundation (1921-1926, 1957-2002, bulk 1965-2002). This collection includes correspondence, reports, financial records, property and animal records, architectural drawings, photographs and scrapbooks, audio-visual materials, newspaper clippings, marketing materials, and inventories of the art, artifacts, and furniture collections, among other items. Within the materials dating from the management period are extensive records from research conducted on the property and the Penn family. Named for the chinquapin, a dwarf chestnut tree, Chinqua-Penn Plantation was built by Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Penn and Margaret Beatrice "Betsy" Schoellkopf Penn during the 1920s. The large house reflected their lifestyle of entertaining and traveling, and it showcased the art and furniture they collected from around the world. The plantation's grounds evolved into an exotic horticultural collection of both native and imported plants. The Penns ran a dairy at Chinqua-Penn as well. After Betsy Penn's death in 1965, Chinqua-Penn was maintained by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. When funding was cut in the late 1980s, the house was closed, but NCSU took over its management and reopened it shortly thereafter. In 1991, funding became a problem yet again, and the museum was closed a second time. A nonprofit organization called the Chinqua-Penn Foundation was formed by Reidsville, North Carolina, officials to preserve the house and open it to visitors. The foundation secured Chinqua-Penn Plantation status as a National Historic Landmark and reopened the house with state funding. Although NCSU continues to administer the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center on the mansion grounds, further funding problems forced the foundation to close the museum's doors. NCSU sold the house to a private owner in 2006. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Delta Lambda Phi, Beta Alpha Chapter Records, 2001-2004
Size: 1.5 linear feet (2 archival boxes, 2 archival half boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.516
The records of the Delta Lambda Phi fraternity, Beta Alpha Chapter (North Carolina State University's chapter) contain meeting minutes, the constitution and by-laws, a history of the chapter, photographs, newspaper articles about the chapter, and other general information. Delta Lambda Phi is a national social fraternity for gay men. ... More
The records of the Delta Lambda Phi fraternity, Beta Alpha Chapter (North Carolina State University's chapter) contain meeting minutes, the constitution and by-laws, a history of the chapter, photographs, newspaper articles about the chapter, and other general information. Delta Lambda Phi is a national social fraternity for gay men. In 1998, four students at NC State proposed starting a chapter of Delta Lambda Phi (DLP); a "colony" was granted to NC State by the national office of DLP in that year, and a full chapter was applied for and granted in 2001. The Beta Alpha chapter remains active as of 2008. Less
North Carolina State University, Student and Other Organizations, Society of Afro-American Culture Records, 1968-1984
Size: 0.5 linear feet (2 archival half boxes) Collection ID: UA 021.513
The Society of Afro-American Culture Records include information about the organization's leadership, activities, and concerns in the form of administrative records, newsletters, newspaper clippings, national newspapers, correspondence, and event advertisements. The materials address a range of topics related directly to North ... More
The Society of Afro-American Culture Records include information about the organization's leadership, activities, and concerns in the form of administrative records, newsletters, newspaper clippings, national newspapers, correspondence, and | 2,256 |
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After 41 years in the same job, this Queens science teacher still loves the 'constructive chaos' of the classroom
By Christina Veiga Jul 25, 2019, 8:56pm EDT
Greg Grambo, a 41-year science teacher at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, demonstrates how clouds form.
How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs.
Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask educators who've been recognized for their work how they approach their jobs. You can see other pieces<|fim_middle|> and what to cut with. Writing a clear, specific procedure or set of instructions is important to the budding scientist — and it takes much of the mess away.
What's something happening in the community that affects what goes on inside your class?
We just renovated our schoolyard so that it would be a public park when our school was not using it. Since our community is crowded and full of apartment buildings, a place for children to play and grow is important. My students spent over six months planning this new schoolyard. The design and plan came completely from them.
You can see information about this project here and here.
Tell us about a memorable time — good or bad — when contact with a student's family changed your perspective or approach.
We have had children that wound up in jail and others who became glacier scientists. I constantly ask myself, what happened in their life that made such a difference, and how can we help to put them onto a better path?
Part of my work at the school is to be the student activities coordinator and to help out with the audio visual department. I know when I see someone who needs a place to be and is constantly getting into trouble — sometimes being yelled at is better than being ignored — I ask them to help out on AV. In AV, that person will make some new friends and learn a new set of skills that no one else in the school will have. It may be possible that if we pay more attention to those who need it the most, they will learn to do the most difficult tasks on their own and then need the attention the least.
What part of your job is most difficult?
When children can't do what you ask of them because they need to take care of brothers, sisters, and other responsibilities, and they have no time for themselves.
In one class I had a student who left school, went to pick up his brother at day care, then went home to relieve the worker taking care of his grandmother. He then cooked and took care of everyone until his mother came home at 11 p.m. I guess there wasn't a whole lot of free time for homework.
We get a small stipend to use in our classroom for scissors, glue, and other classroom supplies. Many teachers use that money to purchase items for students who cannot afford anything.
What was your biggest misconception that you initially brought to teaching?
The school day lasts about seven hours and ends at 3:00 p.m. when you leave the building. When you arrive at home, you are constantly grading and redoing lesson plans to make them better for the children's discovery and learning. This goes on for hours, so the seven hour day stretches on and on.
How would you describe your teaching style?
I teach science and technology like you would teach art. I have lots of manipulatives, give them a task, do not explain how to get to the end result, and allow them to discover a path of their own. They may not come to your same ending and may find out something completely different along the way — that is what scientists do.
It sounds like your classroom is a very busy place. How do you check for students' understanding throughout all that bustle?
I love to have the children write in notebooks. An open book quiz will show me how well they write out their notes. I use exit tickets which could be a one- or two-question quiz, sometimes I use "plickers" to ask questions and they hold up their plicker card for a response.
The plickers are a unique, printed card that identifies them. Holding it in different directions can represent a different response to a question. I can use my phone to scan the cards all at once and see the responses. If everyone knows the answer to a question, I do not need to go in that direction. If no one can answer the question, I have a place to start that day.
It sounds like you trust your students to move around and talk a lot, which could lend itself to misbehavior. What are your techniques for keeping things on track and under control?
Staying on task is not easy for everyone. Each group is responsible for helping each other notice when they stray off task. There is nothing like hearing, 'We just finished our group project, and a classmate did not do his or her share of the work.'
We have contracts for group work and write in our notebooks each day what we accomplished that day and what we will try to accomplish during our next class meeting. Students keep track of what they are doing and what other members of the group are doing. Each day, students are given a few minutes to discuss their notes and finalize the day's work.
What are you reading for enjoyment?
I read lots of magazines and, it may sound crazy, but I am always reading the PDF of a manual for a new piece of Audio Visual equipment or computer part. We just purchased Sling Studio that allows me to live stream an event to Facebook. I learn it, I work with the children on it, then I allow them to stream concerts and shows on their own.
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By his own description, Gregory Grambo's classroom is often a "wild" place to learn.
Grambo has taught science at Louis Armstrong in Queens since the middle school first opened its doors 41 years ago. His style is simply to give students lots of equipment — but not much guidance. The goal is to let students lead their own learning and make their own discoveries.
"It's constructive chaos," he said. "You can hear them down the hall."
His students seem to like it that way. The veteran educator recently won the Star Teacher for Excellence in STEM Education award from WNBC after one of his own students wrote in to nominate him.
In addition to science, Grambo serves as the school's activity coordinator and oversees the audio visual department, both of which, he says, give kids other outlets to explore their own passions and stay out of trouble.
"They might not want to be in college to be an astrophysicist. They might want to be on Broadway, doing lighting," he said. "I tell them they're here to learn for themselves."
Even after more than four decades at the same school, Grambo says his classroom has been a place of constant change. He often thinks up new lessons, and is constantly reflecting, often with the help of his colleagues, about how to improve his craft.
Grambo suspects he'll be at his job for a while yet — even as thoughts of retirement crop up time and again.
"Once in a while I think about it," he said. "But then I think, 'What would I do at home?' I love doing this."
Here are Grambo's thoughts about building trust with students, what parts of the job are still hard, and his favorite lesson to teach. Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Was there a moment when you decided to become a teacher?
Going to high school, I took chemistry for three hours every day for three years. I was good at it but I really like to draw and paint. I was torn between what I wanted to do as I became an adult. In college I got a degree in fine arts and chemistry with a minor in education.
I thought I would become an art teacher, but there were always layoffs in that area, and I knew I was good in science. I knew I could teach science just as you would teach art: with hands-on manipulatives that would lead to a mess, and that would turn into discovery, and then into learning. I began my career as a science teacher.
How do you get to know your students?
We play games, like passing a ball back and forth and saying our names aloud as the ball moves. I have dyslexia, so learning names is difficult for me. We also sit in groups and talk about school and home.
Whenever we need more help in working as a group, I find that group games become helpful. Groups help people learn to rely on each other, build trust, and build a bond of friendship. As the children learn to trust each other and learn to trust the adults around them, we begin to understand why the child might not have been able to finish that assignment, or whether they have a quiet place at home to study for that exam that the teacher thought was so important.
When you make yourself available and you really learn to listen and hear people, they will learn to trust you.
Tell us about a favorite lesson to teach. Where did the idea come from?
When we talk about simple machines, I have them build roller coasters from pipe insulation and marbles. When I wanted them to understand how to write out a procedure, I did a demonstration on making tomato sauce and did exactly what they told me to do — and it got really messy, really fast.
'Cut the tomato,' and out came a saw. 'Smash the tomato,' and out came a hammer. Then, when they write that I should dice the tomatoes, I like adding small white dice to the sauce because they are easy to see.
Then their instructions become more specific as to the size of pieces I should cut, | 834 |
With their seventh album, the scope of Trio Mediaeval<|fim_middle|>ivedal and the Icelandic capital of Reykyavík, founded by Norse settler Ingólfr Arnarson.
Over several summers Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen spent many days together in Dalsfjorden, and it was there that most of the music for this recording was born. Fascinated and inspired by Icelandic sagas, chants, folk songs, religious hymns and fiddle tunes, the four musicians have arranged a unique set of songs where improvisation, mediaeval and traditional music – from Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Orkney islands – meet the present. Something new is created from the integration of Henriksen's liquid trumpet sound into the Trio Mediaeval's subtle blending of voices.
Trio Mediaeval was founded in Oslo in 1997. Its original members were Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, and Torunn Østrem Ossum. When Torunn left the group at the end of 2013, she was replaced by Berit Opheim, who had been singing regularly with the ensemble since 2010. The first album with the revised line-up was Aquilonis, released in 2014.
Arve Henriksen has appeared on many ECM albums over the last two decades, beginning with the 1996 recording No Birch with the Christian Wallumrød Trio. He was recently featured in the Atmosphères quartet with Tigran Hamasyan, Evind Aarset and Jan Bang. Sampled voices of The Trio Mediaeval were incorporated into Henriksen's Cartography (recorded 2005-2008), an album on which Anna Maria Friman also makes a guest appearance.
Rímur was recorded in February 2016 at Munich's Himmelfahrtskirche, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
CD booklet includes all song texts with English translations, and a performer's note by Anna Maria Friman. | 's music continues to expand. Previous ECM New Series releases have focussed on aspects of early music, particularly sacred monophonic and polyphonic medieval music, as well as the trio's strong relationships with contemporary composers. In parallel, the trio has also investigated the world of traditional folk songs. Now Rímur emphasises the group's interest in improvisation, in a collaboration with trumpeter Arve Henriksen, which also explores music from diverse Northern sources.
As Anna Maria Friman indicates in her liner note, improvisation has long been a significant component of Nordic musical tradition, and Trio Mediaeval has embraced it with enthusiasm. "Over the last ten years we have been fortunate to be involved in new collaborative projects with Norwegian jazz musicians and improvisers, and the inspiration and creativity that these musicians brought to the music and to the group have been hugely significant for us." The trio has worked with Tord Gustavsen, Trygve Seim, Nils Økland, Mats Eilertsen, and many others. Arve Henriksen has often performed with Trio Mediaeval in live settings (and the singers and trumpeter appear together on Sinikka Langeland's recent recording The Magical Forest) but Rímur is their first extensive collaboration on disc.
The roots of the present project go back to 2007 when Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen took part in a ceremony in Dalksfjorden on Norway's west coast celebrating connections between the village of R | 303 |
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Revinylization #16: George Russell's New York, N.Y.
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George Russell was a major innovator in modern jazz: a pianist-composer-theoretician who profoundly influenced Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, and the "modal revolution" that propelled so much music of the 1960s and beyond. But he's largely been forgotten. He was also the leader of ensembles, big and small, on more than two dozen albums. A few of those albums are acknowledged masterpieces, but they too have been overshadowed by some of his acolytes' classics.
The most ambitious of Russell's masterworks is New York, N.Y., which was recorded in the fall of 1958 and released on Decca in 1959—the same year as Miles's Kind of Blue and Trane's Giant Steps. So it is good to see it come back to life in this gorgeous gatefold-packaged reissue, mastered from the original analog tapes, and pressed on 180gm QRP vinyl as part of Universal Music's joint venture with Chad Kassem's Acoustic Sounds.
Russell's innovation was to base improvisation not on chords—the essence of bebop, the predominant form of jazz at the time—but on scales, aka modes. The distinction was hardly academic. When a bebop musician improvised, the chord changes served as a compass, pointing the direction to the next bar or phrase. This sequence would last 12 bars, at which point the musicians finish their solo or start over again, with variations. Improvising on scales changed everything. The compass was thrown out the window, or its needle started spinning in multiple directions. You could play all the notes of the scale, not just those that comprised the chord. As Russell put it, "you are free to do anything" (the italics were his) "as long as you know where home is." The trick was to fuse freedom with discipline so that what you played sounded neither chaotic nor too controlled, and to wind up where you started.
This is the remarkable accomplishment of Russell's greatest music. It is composed music; it outlines a structure for improvisation, but the structure, as he put it, "provides the possibilities. It is for the musician to sing his own song really, without having to meet the deadline of a particular chord." New York, N.Y. was recorded about halfway between the two albums that launched Miles Davis on his modal path—Milestones and Kind of Blue—and it features the two most trailblazing members of Miles's sextet at the time: Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans. Coltrane plays on just one track, a cover of Rodgers & Hart's "Manhattan," but you hear the glimmers of the style he'd perfect on Kind of Blue: the frantically fast, preternaturally precise "sheets of sound" that he'd already developed on Blue Trane, but, unshackled from "the deadline of a particular chord," he could vary his pace and focus more on melody and mood. He comes off lyrical and lithe. Evans, who's on all five tracks (he'd been in Russell's band before joining Miles's), evokes his familiarly Ravelian colors but with a more fleeting touch.
New York, N.Y. is a big band record—13 topnotch musicians traversing Russell's scores, which are unlike any jazz orchestral scores of the time. There are, inevitably, shades of Ellington, Basie, Evans, and Davis's "birth of the cool" nonet (in which Russell played a role), but the rhythms shift more sharply, the harmonies mesh minor with major, dissonant with consonant, yet the underlying melodies unfold in seamless propulsion.
The album's conceit is a jazz tour of New York, each song introduced by singer Jon Hendricks, reciting high-spirited beat-poem tributes to the city of blues and dues. These interludes are charming and not at all pretentious. After "Manhattan" come two Russell compositions: "Big City Blues," with a fluid, swinging solo by tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, and "Manhattan-Rico," with blazing Latin percussion (Russell had written "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop" for Dizzy Gillespie's big band), an "East Side Medley" of "Autumn in New York" and "How About You" (with Evans and trumpeter Art Farmer soloing), and Russell's "A Helluva Town" (with a drum solo by Max Roach).
How does it sound? Generally, very good: the soloists and rhythm section are vivid, palpable; bass lines (by Milt Hinton or George Duvivier) are clear, plucky, and woody; the drumheads pound, the cymbals shimmer. Two caveats. First, as with many (but far from all) early stereo recordings, the instruments are crowded into the left speaker and the right speaker, except for Hendricks, who narrates upfront and center, and the nonsoloing horn players, who are spread a bit in the center to the rear. (There's a convincing illusion of depth.) Second, when those nonsoloing horn players blow loud, the engineer (unidentified) hits the compression button; the dynamics don't bloom. (It's better than distortion, but still ....) These flaws, at times annoying, don't disrupt the pleasure. The tapes were otherwise fine to begin with, the mastering by Ryan Smith of Sterling Sound is probably as good as possible—this LP sounds much better than previous reissues—and the music overwhelms any flaws.
Maybe this will trigger a George Russell renaissance. I'd be very keen to hear a great pressing of The Jazz Workshop, his 1957 debut on RCA with Bill Evans and Art Farmer, or, even more, Ezz-thetics, his 1961 sextet on Riverside featuring Eric Dolphy. Anyone?
Excellent review! FK
Submitted by Allen Fant on April 1, 2021 - 5:47pm
Without question, 1959, was the best year in Jazz history.
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Revinylization #18: Déjà Vu all over again
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Gallium is a metal with a very low melting point. In fact it will melt in your hand after a few minutes. Once it is liquified, it is an interestingly dense liquid, similar to<|fim_middle|>7.0 °C), hence, the metal will melt in a person's hands). | mercury (except gallium is non-toxic!) This vial contains 15g of this interesting element.
Non-toxic, but we wouldn't eat it. Like water, gallium expands when frozen, so don't store it in glass.
Gallium is a chemical element with symbol Ga and atomic number 31. It is in group 13 of the periodic table, and thus has similarities to the other metals of the group, aluminium, indium, and thallium. Gallium does not occur as a free element in nature, but as gallium(III) compounds in trace amounts in zinc ores and in bauxite. Elemental gallium is a soft, silvery blue metal at standard temperature and pressure, a brittle solid at low temperatures, and a liquid at temperatures greater than 29.76 °C (85.57 °F) (above room temperature, but below the normal human body temperature of 98.6 °F (3 | 204 |
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Steamboat Springs is famous for its skiing, but it offers a whole lot more, including hot springs, popular after a day out on the slopes or any time of the year. By staying at Strawberry Park Hot Springs you can enjoy relatively cheap accommodation rates that include access to the multiple large stone-lined soaking pools with sandy bottoms and natural rock sides that separate them. Located just outside town in a high mountain valley, you can choose from unique options like covered wagons for just $70 for two people per night, a renovated train caboose with a gas fireplace, rustic cabins or tent sites.
Fernweh Inn & Hostel, Fort Collins
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There are a ton of free and cheap things to do in Fort Collins, and the Fernweh Inn & Hostel offers shared and private rooms starting at just $34 a night. Bikes are available to borrow, and you'll get coffee, tea and snacks to fuel your adventures too. Hike or fish at nearby Horsetooth Reservoir, enjoy a free brewery tour at New Belgium, and at night, head to the Aggie Theatre where you can usually catch a show for less than $15.
Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort, Nathrop
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Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort is surrounded by gorgeous Rocky Mountain scenery and offers the total vacation destination, with everything you need right on the property. Accommodations range from lodge rooms to luxurious cabins, starting at just $140 a night, with the pools included in room rates. The property offers both natural hot springs and human-created pools that are all heated by geothermal water, as well as an extensive spa that provides massage, body treatments, facials, acupuncture, private soaks and more. There's also a restaurant on site with a menu focused on fresh ingredients, including local produce; bars and a beer garden.
Rochester Hotel & Leland House, Durango
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The Leland House and Rochester Hotel are small, family-owned historic hotels with an authentic Western theme. Rooms at the Rochester Hotel are themed after Westerns that were filmed in the area, while the Leland House features local memorabilia, biographies and photos of important historical figures. Rooms start at $159 a night and include a complimentary gourmet breakfast, free Cruiser bike rentals, Aveda products and Wi-Fi. You'll not only have easy access to the many delights this charming mountain town offers but outdoor activities like whitewater rafting, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, skiing and snowboarding.
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If you're seeking a romantic mountain getaway at a value price, Taharaa Mountain Lodge in Estes Park is just minutes from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park and offers breathtaking views of the surrounding peaks. Every room and suite, starting at less than $200 a night, boasts floor-to-ceiling windows, a cozy fireplace and a panoramic outdoor deck for enjoying those incredible vistas and the fresh mountain air. A delicious breakfast and happy hour every evening are included. The lodge also includes a sauna and offers pampering treatments like hot stone massage and facials.
Delaware Hotel, Leadville
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Delaware Hotel, Leadville (Prices & Photos)
The Historic Delaware Hotel offers a "time capsule of the Victorian West," in the country's highest elevated town, Leadville, which sits at 10,152 feet, surrounded by dramatic mountain peaks. Rooms start at just $109 a night and you'll be in the heart of what was once one of the richest, longest-lived and bawdiest mining boomtowns, with 70 square blocks of the downtown area designated as a National Historic Landmark of Victorian architecture. There IS a wide range of shops, eateries and historic attractions, along with a host of outdoor adventure to enjoy.
Viking Lodge and Ski Shop, Winter Park
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Viking Lodge and Ski Shop, Winter Park (Prices & Photos)
The Viking Lodge offers traditional European-style lodging with rustic Nordic rooms and more traditional alpine rooms, all at affordable rates starting at $59 a night in downtown Winter Park. All rooms include mini-refrigerators, and some feature lofts and kitchens too. Ideal for a budget-friendly ski vacation, there is an onsite ski rental shop as well as a fireplace for gatherings, a sauna, hot tub, ski lockers and a game room with ping pong, pool and other games.
Cripple Creek Hospitality House & Travel Park, Cripple Creek
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Aerial view of Cripple Creek Hospitality House & Travel Park, Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek Hospitality House & Travel Park, Cripple Creek (Prices & Photos)
Rooms at this historic hotel and RV park start at only $85 a night. Originally opened as a hospital in 1901, in the 1960s it reopened as a grand Victorian hotel with antique furnishings – each guest room has its own unique decor, and on the door is the name of how the particular room may have been used when it was a hospital. You'll find plenty of modern amenities too, including flat-screen TVs with satellite and Wi-Fi. The property includes a children's play area, volleyball, badminton, crochet, horseshoes and corn hole, as well as complimentary shuttles to gaming, shopping and dining in downtown Cripple Creek.
Historic Victor Hotel, Victor
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Historic Victor Hotel, Victor (Prices & Photos)
Just seven miles from Cripple Creek, step into Victor and you'll feel as if you've stepped into the late 19th-century. There are no grand casinos here, but there are lots of period buildings, like the Victor Daily Record newspaper office, the | 1,326 |
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So what is a horoscope? At it's simplest level a horoscope is a kind of a diagram. It is all to easy to get lost in the diagram itself, with all the signs and symbols, however it is important to remember that a diagram is simply a drawing (of sorts) that represents something.
At a deeper level your natal horoscope (your birth chart) is a map that represents something very sacred indeed. It represents your entire energy field and is symbolic of your own personal energy mandala. As such, it is your own personal map to your Soul's expression and your Life Purpose.
A modern natal horoscope is created using symbols that represent the planets, signs and aspects. The positions of the planets at the time of your birth are noted and placed on the horoscope according to their zodiac sign and house position.
Then the astrologer can look at the 'aspects' – the geometric angles between planetary positions – to determine where there are energetic affinities, or potential obstacles to the flow of energy between planets.
In days gone by, calculating and drawing up a natal horoscope was a very detailed and time-consuming project which in our modern era is made so much faster by the use of astrological computer software.
So what is a horoscope? It is simply a symbolic representation of your personal energy mandala.
The word horoscope comes from the Greek horoskopos, from hora meaning 'hour' and skopos meaning 'to watch', which literally meant 'watching the hour'1.
A horoscope is therefore like a kind of snapshot in time of the prevailing energy surrounding an event. We can draw up a horoscope for any event although the kind of horoscopes people are probably most familiar with are the natal horoscope (often called a birth or natal chart).
Is Your Whole Life In Your Natal Horoscope?
Because your natal horoscope is like a snapshot of your energy field taken at the time of your birth, a skilled astrologer can read your energy field and see much of your potential. It can show predispositions and tendencies, how your behavior and character may manifest, and how you may react and respond in certain situations.
It is not a cast-iron prediction of what will happen. It would be awesome if astrology could say, "you are supposed to be a plumber", or a teacher, or something, and that would be a great help to many of us, and offer a simple solution. Unfortunately life isn't always that simple, and astrology doesn't work that way. I for one wouldn't want to feel so restricted. I like the idea that there is choice and flexibility in life!
Having said that, your horoscope can definitely give pointers and show where you may have a talent or flair for something. For example one of the classic 'careers' for someone with Sun in Gemini would be journalism, but does that mean you have to become a reporter with a big newspaper? Maybe not, in this day and age if you do have a flair for writing and/or 'reporting' you may choose to have your own YouTube channel and or make your living writing your own blog!
Other factors in your horoscope are also taken into account because they will affect the expression of a certain trait. If you have Sun in Gemini and Cancer Rising you may be less outgoing and prefer a 'conventional' career rather than striking out on your own.
Your natal horoscope can be thought of like a seed in that it reflects all the potential expressions contained in your energy field. It indicates the reason you are here, what your Soul's purpose is, and how you are likely to express that through your specific personality traits. Whether you express them in part, in full, or not at all, depends | 788 |
Olives are one of the oldest foods known originated in Greece. Their popularity quickly spread throughout Egypt and Palestine. Olive trees provided ancient civilizations with food, fuel, wood and medicine. Olives have been regarded as a symbol of peace and wisdom. Today, most of the olives are cultivated in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Olives are fruits of the<|fim_middle|> brine in which the olives are packed can be used as a replacement for salted water in recipes. Olive tapenade is a delicious and easy-to-make spread that you can use as a dip, sandwich spread or topping for certain fish or meats. Simply place about 1 cup of pitted olives in a food processor with 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Add some sautéed chopped onion and some of your favourite seasonings such as oregano, Italian flat leaf parsley, chives or garlic. Puree in food processor and process to desired consistency. It can be coarse or smooth. Other ways of preparing olives include tossing pasta with chopped olives, tomatoes, fresh chives and extra virgin olive oil. Add chopped olives to your tuna or chicken salad. Keep olives handy for a snack or an appetizer with some cheese. | tree known as the "Olea europaea". Olea comes from the Latin word meaning "oil". Olives cannot be eaten right off of the tree. They need special processing to remove or reduce their bitterness. Processing methods vary with the region where olives are cultivated, their texture, size and colour. Some olives are purposely picked green and unripe and others harvested when they are fully ripened or have turned black in colour. Some methods of processing olives expose the unripe green olives to air and this oxidation process turns the olives a dark colour. Colour of olives is also affected by how they are cured. Some methods of curing are by using oil, water, brine or salt. Some of the many varieties of mouthwatering olives include Kalamata, Nicoise, Picholine, Manzanilla, Lugano, Gaeta and Moroccan oil-cured.
Olives help to prevent colon cancer by neutralizing free radicals in the body. Olives are high in Vitamin E and monounsaturated fats which are the two important ingredients that help to prevent some cancers. The Vitamin E and polyphenols in olives may also help in reducing the severity of osteoarthritis and can also help reduce the frequency or severity of hot flashes in women experiencing menopause.
Olives are usually sold in jars and cans. Many stores offer them in bulk in large barrels or containers. Buying olives in bulk will give you the opportunity to try out the many different kinds of olives available and you can buy as little or as much as you want. Olives will keep freshest if stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator and in its own brine. Look for olives that are plump, without any bruises or dark spots. Soft, mushy ones should be discarded.
To pit olives, press them with the flat side of a broad bladed knife. This will break the flesh open so that you can easily remove the pit with your knife or fingers. The | 407 |
Choosing between financing and leasing can be a tough decision, but it doesn't have to be. Decarie Motors Jaguar is dedicated to helping you find the solution that works best<|fim_middle|> today. | for you, one step at a time. There are numerous benefits to both financing and leasing, it simply depends on your lifestyle and needs.
With financing, you can look forward to being the full owner of your vehicle once the payments end. This means you'll have complete freedom as to what you want to do with your car or truck. Financing also gives you more flexibility if a drastic change in your life forces you to break the deal. Whereas leasing companies generally have severe penalties when you break a contract, financing tends to be more relaxed.
With leasing, you can enjoy lower monthly payments over a shorter term compared to financing. This means you could afford a Jaguar model with the most powerful engine and still pay less per month than you would with financing! Once the lease ends, you'll have the opportunity to return your vehicle for a newer Jaguar vehicle.
To learn more about the advantages of financing and leasing, visit us at Decarie Motors Jaguar | 188 |
Buried lies can't keep Casey down
By Rex Hoggard
ORLANDO, Fla. – When Paul Casey and his caddie, John McLaren, arrived at the 17th green a familiar sight was waiting for them.
Casey's tee shot at the par 3 dropped short of the green and into a bunker, leaving the Englishman with a buried lie.
"My third buried ball of the day," Casey corrected when asked about the incident.
Casey, who was tied for third following his second-round 69 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, said he<|fim_middle|> Casey, who bogeyed the ninth but scrambled for par at the 15th and 17th holes. He did, however, have a good laugh with McLaren after seeing his lie on No. 17.
"It was a genuine laugh and relishing the challenge which I think you've got to do around here anywhere in almost every Tour event you're going to do it," Casey said. "You've got to do well to avoid all the trouble. We took it on the chin and look what happened when you have a smile sometimes - you get up and down."
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The Saudi International in its third year is shaping up as one of the strongest fields on the European Tour.
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Paul Casey fired a 7-under-par 65 to grab the Day 1 lead at the Masters Tournament before play was suspeneded.
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Making his fifth start in a row, Paul Casey is trying to ease his way around Sedgefield, but he's just three shots off the lead going into the weekend at the Wyndham Championship. | had similar buried lies at Nos. 9 and 15 on Friday.
"We actually worked on it the beginning of this week, buried one in a practice round, maybe even the pro-am as well and we genuinely worked on it, talked about technique and addressed that technique," Casey said.
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We have launched a new Migrant Victim Support Project that provides specialised assistance for migrant and refugee victims of crime.
Tel: 083 0086391 | Email: mvs@doras.org | Web: www.doras.org/mvs
The initiative is the first of its kind in Ireland and is a response to the growing demand to meet the complex and increasing needs of migrant and refugee victims of crime. It is supported by the Department of Justice.
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All victims of crime need support but we see first hand how migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees often need specific and sometimes more specialised support. They may be victims of crimes such as human trafficking, racism, hate crime, gender-based violence (GBV<|fim_middle|> on under-resourced NGOs. Supporting victims of crime needs to be at the centre of the criminal justice system's response to crime. This is particularly true for foreign nationals who may have no one else in the state to rely on."
Human trafficking is one area those involved are particularly keen to focus on. Ireland has continually been highlighted as one of the countries falling behind in this area. John Lannon says it's a major concern to Doras and colleagues throughout the migrant sector.
"We've seen throughout Europe and Ireland how efforts have been made to exploit Ukrainian women and children as they flee war and devastation. There have been numerous cases highlighted in the media, including that of a teenage girl from Ukraine was taken into emergency care in Ireland amid fears she had been trafficked into Ireland. Internationally, it is known that Ireland is not meeting minimum standards when it comes to tackling trafficking, although improvements are being made. It is our hope that the Migrant Victim Support Project will help make inroads in this area and to assist incredibly vulnerable people who need our support. We also hope that more organisations and agencies get on board as these are issues that connect into every area of Irish society". | ), human trafficking, labour market exploitation, or modern slavery. Victims may not know where to turn for help and sometimes language, immigration, or cultural barriers are a factor. Certain groups are particularly vulnerable and already dealing with a complex range of challenges, including those who have fled their countries due to war or persecution. It can be extremely difficult for people living in direct provision or other challenging circumstances to seek help or know where to turn. That's why this project is particularly important.
The Migrant Victim Support Project was developed to address the current gaps in service provision for victims of crime who have special protection needs. The project will work to overcome the significant barriers faced by migrants and refugees with regard to accessing justice and appropriate support services.
Doras Project Coordinator Donnah Vuma says that "victims deserve a system that protects and supports them from Day 1 and at every step of their recovery. Navigating the aftermath of a crime can be complex and each victim's healing process can be different".
She says the new project will ensure that wherever a victim may be in their journey or wherever they are in the country, they have access to the help they need when they need it.
"A survivor-centered approach is fundamental to our work. There is no single approach in supporting the very diverse populations that comprise migrant and refugee communities across the country. Meeting the intersectional needs of these different groups is a challenge, we strongly believe in a multi-agency approach and that improving cultural understanding and sensitivity to the unique needs of migrant victims of crime is critical in making services accessible to them."
Bulelani Mfaco from the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI), supports the new initiative.
"MASI has had to respond to cases of all forms of violence including sexual violence involving women and men who have come to Ireland seeking protection. Many refugees and migrants do not have the important family support they'd need when they experience violence, they can only rely | 393 |
Introducing the 2018 Kia Forte. This 4 door, 5 passenger sedan<|fim_middle|> allowing you to drive with even greater assurance. It also arrives with a Carfax history report, indicating just one previous owner. We know that you have high expectations, and we enjoy the challenge of meeting and exceeding them! Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information. | has not yet reached the 20,000 mile mark! Smooth gearshifts are achieved thanks to the efficient 4 cylinder engine, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. Both high fuel economy and flexible performance are assured by the 6 speed automatic transmission. Kia prioritized comfort and style by including: delay-off headlights, 1-touch window functionality, a tachometer, variably intermittent wipers, power door mirrors and heated door mirrors, remote keyless entry, and power windows. Kia ensures the safety and security of its passengers with equipment such as: head curtain airbags, front side impact airbags, traction control, brake assist, a security system, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. This car was designed with safety in mind, | 160 |
Storms pass and, in their wake, new<|fim_middle|> God, could this nightmare get any worse?" It wasn't that he'd discounted a possible visit to The Underground, which did appeal to him. It just wasn't a topic he wanted to discuss with his mother of all people. The boat lurched to one side then the floor seemed to drop from beneath his feet. Jonty staggered, trying to get his balance in the confined space. A need for air overwhelmed him. He burst back into the cabin to find himself alone.
The swell had increased so Jonty spent a few frantic minutes stowing everything that wasn't nailed down, gaining more than a few bruises in the process. He used the intercom to get an accurate map reference for their position from his father before reporting into the coastguard who warned him of increasingly heavy seas.
"I think it's a bit more than that," Jonty argued.
"I… Yes, sir." At sea, the captain's word was law and there was no room for dissension. Although with his father that applied at all times, not only onboard the Caroline, so Jonty knew he was fighting a losing battle. He did a quick tidy round then rolled into his bunk in the miniscule sleeping cabin, staying fully clothed. He drifted into an uncomfortable doze, rocking from side to side with the motion of the waves, his dreams filled with shipwrecks and towering seas.
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Talented young artist Jonty Trelawn paints the sea as self-inflicted punishment. For almost a year he has hidden away from life, survivor's guilt consuming him, but the time has come to move on. He conceives the idea of a charity art auction in support of the local lifeboat station and the men and women who saved his life. He hopes the tribute to his family will release him from the sea's invisible chains.
Carpenter Jed Curnow is bound to the water in a different way. As deputy coxswain of the Govenek, the local lifeboat, his world revolves around the close-knit crew. He thinks nothing of risking his life to save others. Saving Jonty is less dangerous but just as important to him. He wants nothing more than to give Jonty the love and security he needs.
Jed's dominant personality calls to Jonty's more submissive nature but will he ever allow himself to be happy? It's up to Jed and his best friend Marmite to help Jonty put his tragic past behind him and live for the future.
Jonty stood on the swaying deck and took a last, longing glance at the shore. His stomach was already heaving and the Caroline, named after his mother, had only just left the shelter of the bay. The next three days at sea were going to be torment. He hated the annual family ritual that took him away from his painting, but his father insisted on it and, at twenty-five, Jonty still hadn't found the courage to refuse him. Rex Trelawn, who headed a private bank when he wasn't torturing his son, had given up on Jonty ever being a 'proper' sailor, so Jonty was consigned to the galley with orders to keep the rest of the family fed and watered. He dealt with supplies, stocked the cupboards and made sure the boat was ready for a short sea voyage. He was also responsible for reporting their position to the coastguard at regular intervals, which he managed between visits to the head where his stomach contents insisted on making unwelcome reappearances.
The Caroline was a forty-six footer and manageable with a crew of four. She was just big enough that Jonty could avoid his father for some, if not all, of the trip. Rex always took the wheel while Jonty's mother and younger sister, Evie, managed ropes and sails with ease. Evie had a sturdy build and relished the challenges of sailing while Jonty favored his recently deceased grandfather, being slight and less than average height. They were a small family, just the four of them, and Jonty found it impossible to refuse the one outing of the year that brought them all together, much as he wanted to. Three days battling his father's disappointment was not his idea of a fun time.
Jonty slipped below deck to the narrow, claustrophobic galley and began preparations for a light supper. Soup and bread, fruitcake and hot chocolate would suffice—not that he'd be able to eat any of it himself. Just the idea of food made his stomach flip over. The four of them would take breaks and sleep in shifts, sailing out past Land's End and into the Atlantic during the night. It would be something of an endurance test but Jonty could cope with that. He kept strange hours when he painted, sometimes forgetting to sleep.
His father was first to descend into the cabin, brushing a hand through his windswept silver hair. He shed his waterproofs, hanging them on a peg before taking a seat at the table.
"Yes, sir." Jonty didn't need the reminder, but said nothing. He ladled soup into a bowl then placed it in front of his father.
"Not eating?" The usual note of disapproval colored Rex Trelawn's tone.
"No." Jonty didn't expand. His father knew full well that Jonty got seasick every time he sailed.
Jonty held back a sigh. He wasn't feeling up to defending himself yet again.
Jonty's family, including his sister who was studying at King's College, resided in London. Jonty chose to live at the family's second home in Cornwall where the pure light was perfect for painting. He needed a place of his own where he could cut another tie to his domineering father but somehow he'd never gotten around to house hunting. He didn't rise to Rex's taunt. Housing discussions were preferable to those that questioned his 'dubious lifestyle choices'. Rex Trelawn had never quite accepted his son's sexual orientation and it was a topic best avoided. When Jonty came out at eighteen, Evie had shrugged, his mother had wept for a while then refreshed her makeup, hugged him then commenced trawling her copious address book for prospective boyfriends. Rex had given him the silent treatment for months until Jonty's first gallery showing had sold out. He'd proved to have some worth, so they'd reached a truce of sorts.
Jonty switched on the radio then relaxed into the familiar litany of strange names and wind speeds, paying particular attention to Lundy and Sole.
"It's brisker than I expected," Rex muttered. "Bloody weather changes on the toss of a coin. We could be in for a bumpy ride." He cut himself a slice of fruitcake, grinning.
Jonty's stomach did a jig. He just made it to the head in time.
An unpleasant five minutes later, Jonty returned to the cabin to find Evie swapping places with their father at the table.
"The boy has a weak constitution," Rex grumbled, disappearing up the steps to the deck.
"Only if you haven't thrown up in it." Despite her words, Evie's smile was sympathetic.
"There's nothing left in my stomach. Besides, you're like Dad. You'll eat anything." Jonty did his duty with the soup then watched as Evie demolished the entire bowl and two sizeable chunks of bread.
"I'm straight, gorgeous, I love sport and will provide him with grandchildren. You are not straight, far too pretty for a man, refuse to cut your hair, you hate sport and you have a talent he doesn't, which will no doubt make you richer than him. Of course he loves me best." She raised her mug of hot chocolate in a toast.
Jonty groaned. Sometimes he wondered if he and Evie were actually related or if he'd been swapped at birth. He got a fifteen-minute respite before his mother showed up, dripping wet.
"What do you think?" Jonty put a flask of hot chocolate on the table then wedged himself onto the bench.
"We are not having this conversation. No. Just no." Jonty hid his face in his hands.
"Interesting that you already know what kind of clubs they are." His mother gave him a sly grin.
"I think I'm going to be sick again." Jonty ran for the shelter of the head where he slammed the door, grateful for the escape. "My own mother thinks I need to join the leather scene. Oh | 1,491 |
Beau Chene Country Club is a Private, 36 hole golf facility located in Mandeville, Louisiana. Beau Chene has two 18-hole golf courses, they are The Oak Course and The Magnolia Course.
Both courses were designed by Joe Lee. The Oak Course opened in 1974. The Magnolia course is the newer of the two courses having opened in 1982 with 9 holes (<|fim_middle|>5-18, the interior loop) and the remaining 9 holes (6-14) opened in 1985.
%u200BPar for the course is 72. From the back tees, the course plays to 6,718 yards. From the forward tees, the course measures 5,840 yards. The longest hole on the course is # 15, a par-5 that plays to 525 yards. The shortest hole on the course is # 5, a par-3 that plays to 158 yards from the back tees.
Watch out for # 7, a 410-yard par-4 challenge and the #1 handicap hole on the course. The easiest hole at Beau Chene's Oak Course is # 16, a 205 yard par-3.
Terrific layout, great staff. Members are more than a little snotty. | Holes 1-5 and 1 | 9 |
The New England Writers' Centre, which has been operating for more than 20 years, offers writing and illustrating workshops, professional opportunities, fabulous literary events, showcasing of local talent, and more, to its members. Based in Armidale, it also offers some outreach programs to other New England centres, both physically and through video conferencing and Skype. Members also receive regular newsletters and email digests. Flagship programs include Youth Online, Booked In, the Skype Sessions, and more. The Centre also runs a national writing award, the New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing.
All residents of New England are very welcome to join NEWC - with the New England region encompassing everything from the Queensland border in the north<|fim_middle|>unnedah, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth Regional and Walcha local government areas in the south. The main towns include Armidale, Barraba, Bundarra, Deepwater, Glen Innes, Gunnedah, Guyra, Inverell, Manilla, Quirindi, Tamworth, Tenterfield, Uralla, Walcha, Werris Creek. We also include Dorrigo in the east. | to the G | 3 |
This applet allows you to experiment with Riemann sums and approximating the area between the x-axis, the graph of y = f(x), the vertical lines x = a and x = b. The user gets to<|fim_middle|> using the keyboard. Alternatively, click on the corresponding field, then click on the x-axis where a should be. The same possibility exists for b, except that you click on the field corresponding to b. n can only be entered using the keyboard.
Upper. This computes the upper Riemann sum. Under this option, the height of the rectangles in each subinterval is the maximum value of the function in each subinterval. This gives an upper bound for the area below the graph.
Lower. This computes the lower Riemann sum. Under this option, the height of the rectangles in each subinterval is the minimum value of the function in each subinterval. This gives a lower bound for the area below the graph.
Midpoint. Under this option, the height of the rectangles in each subinterval is the value of the function at the midpoint of each subinterval.
Left. Under this option, the height of the rectangles in each subinterval is the value of the function at the left point of each subinterval.
Right. Under this option, the height of the rectangles in each subinterval is the value of the function at the right point of each subinterval.
Once the user has selected the kind of Riemann sum to use, its value will be displayed.
This areas displays the graph of the function, as well as the rectangles approximating the area below the graph, according to the kind of Riemann sum being chosen. The only interaction with this area is via the mouse. The user can click near the x-axis to select a and b as explained above.
Specify the end points a and b of the interval of study by either entering their value using the keyboard or by clicking on the x-axis.
Specify the number of subintervals to use..
Specify the kind of Riemann sum to use..
Next, specify the values of a, b and n if the default values are not adequate.
Finally, specify the kind of Riemann sum to use.
This applet was developed by Dr. Philippe B. Laval, at Kennesaw State University. | specify the function f, the values of a and b and the number n of subintervals [a,b] is to be divided into. The user also specifies what kind of Riemann sum is to be used. The applet will then draw the graph of the function, and the rectangles corresponding to the partition and the kind of Riemann sum being used. For a more detailed explanation of the options, read further.
There are seven areas on the applet the user can interact with. They are listed below, along with an explanation. As the user puts the cursor into a field, a brief explanation of what to do will be displayed in the Messages area.
The user gets to specify the value of a, the left end point of the interval of study;b, the right end point of the interval of study and n, the number of subintervals. Two methods can be used to specify a. Either click on the corresponding field, and enter the value of a | 198 |
We have all heard the saying about flies being designed to catch fishermen instead of fish. Generally I believe that is not such a bad thing. Purpose built carp flies such as the Backstabber by Jay Zimmerman, Mark's outrageously beautifully carp flies at This River is Wild and my own creations sometimes bring a little extra confidence and that is priceless. Are these flies imbued with a magic mojo that appeals in a special way to carp and triggers a take? I don't care. Catching a carp on a carp-specific fly brings me confidence and intense pleasure.
Every once in a while a reality check is good though. When the carp seem to want something small and subtle I usually go straight to a Hare's Ear Nymph. If I was good enough at keeping a journal I might even find that my most productive carp fly of all time is the Hare's Ear in multiple<|fim_middle|> everybody has a couple carp flies in their box!
Right on. Small nymphs like Hare's Ears and PT's are the ticket on my carp water. Only way get at those super spooky fish sometimes.
No doubt about it...those that roll their own have a huge advantage because they can fine-tune the size, color and pattern but even more importantly the weight and bulkiness.
I am convinced that simple is better...at least on my waters. Going basic in a variety of colors this year and so far it has worked just fine. Bring some of those suckers out west...they'll come in handy.
Simple is almost always better. Un-godly complicated is occasionally fun in a twisted sick kind of way.
Great post! we've found the same on the L.A. River during spawn. The only thing they'd take nymph with a gold bead! Also, congrats on winning the contest. Looked like you submitted some interesting patterns, McTage.
Thanks LARFF (yeah, getting lazy). Sometimes it seems like the gold bead is well....gold. Others times I think it seems like it scares them. Have you had any luck with it outside of spawning season?
Just read your article. Good one. I liked it. Keep going. you are a best writer your site is very useful and informative thanks for sharing!.I used the same fly but without the wing case in New Zealand, on my second cast into a clear pool near a road bridge I hooked a huge rainbow trout which pulled so hard the line burnt my finger. | variants.
I have caught Carp on many different recipes of this infinitely flexible nymph pattern. Throw in a gold bead and you have a weighted fly with a little flash. Add a black tungsten bead and you are ready to dredge the depths. In colored water sometimes adding a flash-back can't be beat. Do you really need a little bit of that carp-specific luvin feeling? Some fine Rubber legs do the trick. Are the fish ultra-shallow and super spooky? A very simple un-weighted variant in natural colors without even gold rib could be the ticket.
I usually stick to size 10 to 14 and my most productive colors have been olive and the traditional tan.
The Hare' Ear Nymph. It turns out that nearly | 152 |
Arc Tech Academy,<|fim_middle|>216-691-2000. | the educationally inventive program offered at Brush High School, will move from its current location in front of Brush High School on Mayfield Road to a new location at Southlyn School in South Euclid. The move comes as the result of a desire to strive beyond the current educational focus and to incorporate a more blended learning model, which the Southlyn facility can more appropriately provide. The transfer from the current location to the new one has taken place over the summer of 2013.
A groundbreaking program, originally established by the SEL Schools more than a decade ago, Arc Tech has been primarily designed for credit recovery purposes for students who are credit deficient, over-age for a grade level or who have been retained for a grade more than one time. The positive and focused nature of Arc Tech has permitted students to pass all sections of the Ohio Graduation Test and earn the necessary credits to graduate from Brush High School. The current delivery of course work for students is through online instruction overseen by certified teachers.
The new location at Southlyn School will allow us to develop a blended model of instruction where students will have the opportunity to experience instructional time with teachers and online mediums. Southlyn has been retrofitted to accommodate the transfer, including the cleaning of classrooms, ensuring safety and security and other measures. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the South Euclid Lyndhurst Schools at | 281 |
Boston doctors: Lifesavers last year, marathoners today
Karen Weintraub
His muscles ached like nothing he'd ever felt before as he passed Mile 13. Pushing against a runner's wall and a strong headwind, it was like running uphill the whole way. As a distraction, Alok Gupta reminded himself, as he often has these past four months, why he voluntarily subjected himself to such torture.
If his former patients could survive twin explosions, multiple surgeries, physical therapy and the emotional strain of last April's Boston Marathon bombings, he thought, he could certainly run a few — OK, 26 — miles in their honor.
Gupta, a trauma surgeon, helped coordinate the response at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of five trauma centers that received patients that day. He also was involved in the care of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother who has been charged in the attack that killed three and wounded more than 260.
Now, Gupta, 37, is one of 70 Beth Israel staff members training for this year's Boston Marathon on April 21. Like many other Bostonians, they feel a compulsion to run to honor the injured and prove that the city will not be cowed by terrorists, homegrown or otherwise.
Overall, 36,000 marathoners will don running shoes and numbers this year — up from 27,000 last year — plus an additional 10,000 will run a 5K race. Other area hospitals that treated victims are seeing a spike in the number of staffers who will run. At Boston Medical Center, the marathon team numbers 105 this year, up from 35 last year. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, the team is up to 122 participants from 67. More than 200 are running on Massachusetts General Hospital's team, up from 119 last year. Many, like Gupta, are tackling their first marathon.
Most of the medical personnel talk about the solidarity they feel with last year's victims, whether they treated them or not.
Tamara Rozental, an orthopedic surgeon at Beth Israel and a longtime runner of shorter distances, says three things prompted her to tackle the marathon. One was the patients she treated last April. "If they can go through something like that, I can run 26 miles," she says. The second was to pay tribute to her medical colleagues: "Nobody who made<|fim_middle|> the finish line — right near where one of the bombs went off.
Struggling toward the hills of the Boston suburb of Newton on his recent training run, getting close to his target distance for the day, Gupta focuses on one footfall at a time. It's what physical therapists tell their patients who are learning to walk again: Take it one step at a time.
A few of his patients from that haunting day would have to adjust to life with just one leg. Others had perforated eardrums, head injuries or other leg wounds.
A few days after the attack, when patients and families began asking to meet other survivors, Gupta arranged to have a room set aside where they could gather and share their stories. The dedicated space allowed them to go or stay as they wished, without compromising their privacy.
Then, after all the patients were discharged — the last one went home 50 days after the bombing — Gupta set up a clinic for the victims. He didn't want them to have to come to the hospital multiple times to meet with different specialists, so he had the specialists come to them, packing a half-dozen follow-up appointments into a few hours.
Gupta is proud of how his hospital and his community handled the bombings. He has given a dozen speeches about it since and is preparing a paper with colleagues on lessons learned. There will be more tragedies for people in his field to cope with. There always are.
Just before Mile 18 on his recent training run — 3½ hours after leaving from the Hopkinton, Mass., starting line and 5 miles after the searing pain started — he reaches a hill in Newton. He can't stop short of his goal, so he climbs, one step at a time, to the top.
From the summit, he decides he can't deprive himself the pleasure of going down, so he keeps on. He runs a few more hills, a few more summits before he finally stops, within sight of the marathon landmark known as Heartbreak Hill.
Gupta, after running at least 6.2 miles longer than he ever thought possible, still can't picture what it will be like when he crosses that finish line April 21.
But, he promises, he'll get there, despite whatever pain he feels that day, alongside 36,000 other runners, many of whom hold the same goals.
"I'm not going to stop now," he says. | it to a hospital that day died. That's a pretty amazing thing." She's also running for her two daughters, the older of whom was born on Marathon Monday six years ago: "I want to show my daughters you can do anything you want to do."
For Rozental, the step up to a marathon was relatively easy. After a long day at the hospital, she says, running is meditative, a refreshing break and a time to review her caseload or think through a problem. Last year's tragedy left her with a lot on her mind, so her long runs had already kept edging up. It didn't seem like such a leap to go for 26 miles, she says, though she has new respect for marathoners. "Now I understand what it takes."
For Gupta, the transition has been much tougher. He'd never run more than a few miles at a time, and that was in high school.
"Before all this happened, I used to ask people (who were running marathons), 'What would possess you to do something so silly?'" he says.
HE TRAINED FOR THIS
When Gupta relives last year's marathon in his mind, he starts with the minute he came in the door from an early shift at work, eager to take his 3-month-old daughter to the finish line. It was an annual tradition for him to walk the few blocks from his apartment to celebrate the runners' success.
But she was napping, so Gupta resigned himself to waiting awhile and seeing only the slowest of finishers. Then his phone rang. The connection was terrible, but he made out the word "bomb." Less than a minute later, after making sure his mother-in-law could stay with the baby, Gupta rushed out the door. He arrived at Beth Israel's emergency room just ahead of the first victims.
He had trained for moments such as this for years through medical school simulations and during the 9/11 attacks, when he was a medical student in New York's Jacobi Medical Center. He assumed he'd never experience such a mass tragedy again.
This time, at Beth Israel, he was in charge.
Gupta identified the most grievously injured patients and made sure the treatment teams were well matched to those 24 patients' specific problems: an orthopedic surgeon for a man with an injured leg; a vascular one for the patient losing too much blood.
It wasn't until a few hours later that the thought crossed his mind: It could have been me.
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Lots more pictures from Via Colori can be found in our slideshow.
This weekend marked the annual Via Colori street painting festival. Now in its sixth year, the weekend-long festival brings the asphalt surrounding Sam Houston Park to life with art...literally. Artists from across the country, as well as a plethora of local talent, take it to the streets and create giant works out of chalk. Each artist is designated a portioned-off square within which to spend the weekend creating their pastel masterpieces.
The process kicked off Saturday morning and went through Sunday evening, giving patrons 48 hours to watch the artists in action. The squares range from 4x4 to 10x10, and that's feet! The works created also range in style, effort and talent. The genres displayed in this weekend's works were a delightful assortment of contemporary to classic, the "Creation of Adam" to a Keith Haring tribute, Warhol and Basquiat to Woody and Buzz (that's "Lightyear"). There are no criteria for what an artist can do with their<|fim_middle|> of Cinderella; tomorrow all of the stunning handiwork of the chalk-covered artist will disappear when the clock strikes twelve. | square; it is just a matter of personal flavor.
Artist Richard Garcia, for example, has a penchant for period pieces and it shows up in his work. This is his fourth year participating in Via Colori and he enjoys it more each year. This time around, he created an impressive monochromatic, classic car. Unlike many of the artists, Garcia uses the chalk in its natural form. Others find it smoother to work with the chalk by crushing it up with water to create a chalky liquid and use it like you would any other paint.
"I feel the style of my images needs that look that the chalk straight to the pavement creates," Garcia tells us.
While many of the artists are repeat customers, there were quite a few newbies in this year's festival. Angela Openhaus was sought out through her involvement with artist resource Spacetaker. She decided to use her square, which was sponsored by the Children's Museum, to re-create Johannes Vermeer's famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring."
"I wanted to do something that everyone would recognize," Openhaus explains.
And then there are those artists, like University of Houston Fine Arts student Matthew Tabor, who chalk to a tune of their own. Tabor turned his square into a Civil War setting, except with Abe Lincoln riding atop a T-Rex. The oversized square was certainly one of the weekend's most buzzed about pieces. Despite its political undertones, Tabor tells Art Attack that he just thought it was a funny idea. It was.
Scattered throughout the day, festival-goers enjoyed tunes from local bands such as Zydeco Dots, Klockwork, Spain Colored Orange and The Literary Greats on the main stage and Two Star Symphony, Ira Perez and Ancient Cat Society on the smaller, more intimate "lounge stage." The weekend ended with a no-joke, rocking performance from Houston's own Roky Moon and BOLT!
In addition to Via Colori being a family-fun weekend of free art, it happens to also be a fundraiser for The Center for Hearing and Speech, which is a resource center that teaches deaf children to listen and speak without the use of sign language.
Luckily for the artists and their chalk reliefs, the weather held, despite threats of thunderstorms. However, Via Colori always reminds us of a night in the life | 476 |
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Yes! We have the Arturia MiniBrute 2. That's amazing. It's just been great to have access to physical kit as well as the software.
Have you used the MiniBrute 2 yet?
It hasn't been available because the students keep booking it out. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on it though. Eventually. It's just not ever free! I think I need to put my name on a waiting list…so far all I've been doing is looking over people's shoulders as they crowd around it.
Is the debate over software vs hardware still relevant?
There's a lot of discussion about plug-ins versus hardware. There are so many positives to software. The only real drawback with plug-ins is the lack of physical interaction that you get from an instrument; being able to reach out and modify things and feel the instrument. It creates a different type of experience, which is really important. Now students get the best of both worlds, which is amazing.
I use the Arturia V 6 Collection in all of my own work, and we use it for our lectures as well. In my experience,<|fim_middle|> about the development and then play.
I absolutely love Arturia's version of the Prophet VS, which is part of their Prophet V package. It's just great for creating otherworldly Eno'esque sounds using Vector synthesis. I love the CMI V, I love the Synclavier V, I love the Jup-8 V. I love the Buchla Easel V as well. I just love all of them! On my most recent commercial project I used some of the more traditional emulations: the Farfisa V and the B-3 V. They just sound excellent. They're amazing, for me personally.
With so many plug-ins available, do you think we're spoiled for choice?
I think if synthesis is taught sequentially, and based on history, you learn which plug-in to load up for the type of sound you're after. I think it makes it much more accessible to people. You're not just looking at a list of multiple choices, you're going to a specific instrument based on the authentic sound that you want, which is the core principal of what's taught in class.
Ready to soak up the incredible world of sound synthesis? Check out our Advanced Diploma in Music production and Sound Engineering, or contact us for more information. | they are the best emulations. It's also about having access to a large breadth of sounds. That would be difficult to do with hardware. It's expensive, vintage synths are hard to maintain and they take up a lot of space in a studio. With plug-ins you can just pick and choose any key piece of equipment that you could've only really dreamed of owning, especially at today's prices for vintage synths.
How do you approach teaching synthesis during the course?
I teach it from a historic point of view. It's the way the course is designed; we teach chronologically in terms of historical developments. For example, when we get into the 60s we talk about modular synthesis. We look at the original modular synths, and obviously one of the most important ones was the Moog Modular. From a historical point of view, it's brilliant having the Arturia collection because then we'll use the Modular V to give the students the practical experience of using a modular synth.
It takes students on a journey. They learn the historical aspects but they also get the ability to then interact with key pieces of equipment so it gives them a grounding in the subject. It just gives them a deep understanding of the components of the synths and why certain historical developments would've happened.
That's why the Modular V is a great starting point. It is literally modules that you patch together with the software. You have an oscillator that creates the sound, you might want to shape it's amplitude over time using an amplitude envelope, you may then want to filter or subtract frequencies using a filter module, and then you might want to modulate the filter using an LFO. Once you understand the blocks that have been put together, and the function of the blocks, you can look at any synth and understand it.
So the next synth you tackle is…?
We move on from the Modular V to the Mini V and then we look at different progressions from there. So we'll talk about FM synthesis and we use the DX7 V. Then vector synthesis using the Prophet V. We also talk about sampling using the CMI V and the Synclavier V. Synthesizers all do the same thing; create sound. But there are differences between how each synth approaches creating a sound. With the V Collection we can access all of them, learn | 474 |
Once again, I have fallen behind on the blogging. This seems to be a recurring theme this year!
Two weeks ago, Mike and I went to Norwell for the MBRC-sponsored race. I loved this race last year, and this year was the same. We lucked out on the weather (it rained the entire way to the race) with sun and warm temps.
NEBC actually had a team of racers in the 35+ - Mike, Scott, Jim, John and Rob. Together, they rode strong, chasing early breaks, working together, and dicing it up with the Corner Cycles and Fuji teams. Their hard work paid off with three top 10 finishes (Scott - 7th, Mike - 8th, John - 10th).
I didn't get to see the finish of their race as I was busy prepping to line up with the 45+ men. Norwell doesn't have a women's field, so racing with the boys is my only option (I was the only woman in the field). Last year at this race, I managed to hang on to the field, but got dropped everytime we went up the finish hill, and had to chase back on. This year, I wanted to NOT get dropped on the climb!
Typically, the 45+ field is considered relatively safe, at least by me. I know many of the racers in this field, and they have lots of years of experience. This year, however, some of the racers were unknown to me, and really made me nervous - not holding lines, pretending to be a top Tour de France descender IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACK, etc. The other interesting phenomenon? I got the sense that some of them desperately did not want to get beaten by a girl ;). So, it took me a few laps to get comfortable and move around the pack, but I met my overall goal - I never once got dropped on the climb, and was, in fact, PASSING people here! On the final climb, I dug deep, sprinted, and passed about 5 riders going into the finish. I managed<|fim_middle|> from my visit, I was happy to see that the tree work we had planned was complete. We moved a large rhododendrun and holly bush, as well as a magnolia tree from the front yard to the side of the house. This will afford us some privacy from the neighbors, as well as from the road! Certainly changes the view out my office window. We also had two apple trees moved, although one of those is looking like it might not survive the stress.
Finally in its new home; After - a bit lonely?
The finished bed/view from the office! | to finish a respectable 24th in a field of 39, so was happy with the overall result.
This past weekend I headed to the homeland for a long over-due visit with my grandma, and a wedding. I flew in this time and rented a car - and since they didn't have any compacts available, I ended up with a convertible! I had a blast driving around with the top down all weekend.
The lake and cottage where I spent a lot of time growing up. The cottage has been moved, and the front room removed, but other than that, it still looks the same as I remember - just smaller!
Enjoyed a visit with gram, who had just turned 86 the previous day. It was a surprise to her that I was coming, which was nice. She was at my aunt and uncle's which used to be her cottage when we were growing up. Lots of changes up there, but the visit brought back some great memories of playing with my cousins and brother.
Then it was off to Paula and Dave's wedding. It's always fun to catch up with good friends, and especially so for such a happy occasion.
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Boat docking can be done next door at the marina for a small fee.
Private dock is off the patio.
Close to West Mountain and some other ski resorts. Ice fishing done on Saratoga Lake as well as snow mobiling.
Cozy spot close enough to town. Far enough away for the cottage feel. My family loved it we will likely stay here again.
We were able to bring our dogs and found it<|fim_middle|> one morning to apologize--was quite odd and uncertain why he came by at that time as we did not make any comments anywhere.
We liked having the bedrooms on opposite ends of the trailer as hubby snores and then daughter does not sleep. Had enough room between to muffle the sound.
Had lots of kitchen items, but appeared to be leftovers from other settings as had no cereal bowls, but many cups and plates.
The owner gave us a wrong address and we arrived quite late in the evening. Address was to another long term lease that the owner had and luckily the lights were on and when we approached that house, we could see someone inside sleeping on the couch.
We re-looked at the website and were able to find the correct home from the map. Picture was for the home next to the trailer--but we knew that the rental was a single story home. The owners may want to update the website to reflect this home rather than the larger one next door as confusing.
Owners were responsive and caring.
Had a good time fishing and touring the lake. Caught some fish and enjoyed having the for dinner. House trailer was big enough for the four of us. Went to Saratoga horse track and enjoyed visiting one of the premier tracks on the east coast. The house was supplied well and we enjoyed our stay there and I would recommend it .
We were looking for a place to stay that would allow us to explore the Saratoga Springs area. While the accommodations were not luxurious, it had everything we needed and it was close to Saratoga. The neighborhood was quiet and we got to watch the ducks on the lake every morning before setting off for the day. One thing that would have been nice was a sheet with instructions from the home owner: e.g. Wi-Fi password, what we were expected to do with linens at the end of our stay, etc. Overall, we enjoyed our stay.
If cancelling you lose your security deposit of $500 holding the dates and if you cancel with in 60 days of the visit you lose the full amount. | comfortable for all of us. We enjoyed the closeness to the lake and went out paddling a couple times.
Clean and had all we needed for cooking, etc.
This property is on the lake and sadly we had poor weather to be able to enjoy the lakeside. Inside is a never upgraded 1960's trailer that is clean, but worn. Lots of stains that could not be removed from wallpaper, walls, sinks. Good for a family that wanted a "Lake outdoor theme."
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Home›Sports›BC Eagles›Women's Hockey T<|fim_middle|> even with a wrist shot that found the back of the net. UNH capped off a dominant period with another score when Taylor Wenczkowski intercepted a BC pass and beat MacArthur on the breakaway.
The Eagles found themselves reeling heading into the third period, having squandered a promising start and digging a hole for themselves. With the result of the season finale hanging in the balance, forward Erin Connolly rose to the occasion, controlling a pass from Maegan Beres and beating UNH goalie Kyra Smith to even the score at three goals apiece. Neither team could add another goal in regulation, and the contest headed to overtime. However, the extra period proved to be more of the same with neither team able to come away with a game-winner.
The Eagles had a massive advantage in shots (34-23) and faceoff wins (39-23), making a tie a somewhat disappointing result. The Eagles' attack was effective against an inferior UNH team, but the Wildcats capitalized on their opportunities in the second period and hung on for the tie.
This is a somewhat bittersweet ending to the regular season for the Eagles, as they were able to avoid an embarrassing loss, but ultimately should not have put themselves in a position to lose in the first place. The Eagles were completely and utterly dominant in the opening period, and it seems that they simply became complacent and allowed UNH back into the contest.
The Eagles secured the second seed in the Hockey East Tournament, finishing with a record of 23-10-1 (19-7-1 Hockey East) heading into postseason play. New Hampshire, meanwhile, fell to 13-15-6 (10-14-3 Hockey East) on the season. The Eagles will now host the seventh-seeded UConn Huskies in a best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series beginning on March 3 at Conte Forum. The team will now have ten days to rest and gear up for what they hope will be a lengthy postseason run.
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The seventh-ranked Boston College women's hockey team saw its regular season end on Saturday with a hard-fought 3-3 tie against New Hampshire, securing the No. 2 seed for the Eagles in the Hockey East Tournament.
The Eagles jumped all over the Wildcats in the opening period, with forward Lindsay Agnew scoring a short-handed goal in the game's first minute. Kali Flanagan doubled the Boston College lead on a power play just fifteen minutes later. New Hampshire responded before the end of the first period, however, as Carlee Turner was able to sneak a shot past Eagles goalie Maddy MacArthur to trim the deficit to 2-1 at the conclusion of the period.
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It's a bit of this and a bit of that.
Today's post is not going to be of my usual thought-provoking style. Last Friday, Jody, Eve and I teamed up to present a showcase featuring only, yes you guessed it, black and white. We then paraded that same palette with a heady infusion of our personal favourite colour on Monday.
And now, concluding the project, are our interpretations of black with white, and how powerful a game-changer print can be in that entire mix.
I must confess that in the entire trilogy, the outfit you see above is what I'd pick as the one I like best.
It's merely a top and pants.
With signature Sheela kickass booties.
But there's more. Loads more to this ensemble.
Both top and bottom are in Black and White, yes, but the colours are melded into prints. That knit top is a classic houndstooth print with the cheekiest coloured tassels. And those pants? A graffiti print with cool ankle zippers. The cuff on my left wrist? That<|fim_middle|>Q2. Do you personally wear so much black as an act of rebellion?
A2. While I do try to experiment with different colours, black will always be my bestie. I wouldn't say that it's an act of rebellion, but rather just something that I'm more comfortable with.
Q3. Why, in your opinion, is black the go-to colour for women across all generations?
A3. Black is popular because it compliments every type of skin colour and body type. Plus, it's an incredibly versatile colour.
Q4. Use 3 adjectives to describe your opinion of a B&W outfit.
Q5. Who are your style icons and why?
A5. Zendaya is definitely one of my style icons. She's incredibly versatile, ranging from jogger pants with kickass sneakers to gorgeous dresses to die for. She comes up with the coolest ideas and struts her stuff unapologetically. Selena Gomez is awesome too. I love her chic casual looks and often try to replicate them.
How cool is my child??
How cool is everyone in this project??
I can't stop gushing over Eve's style, a trait which (I firmly believe) belie her years. I'd never have thought of pairing that polka dot dress with, of all things, a satin jacket featuring flora, fauna and birds. And those shoes. I wish we had the same sized feet. I really do.
Those booties are something else though. They're amped-up gladiator sandals. With mesh front panels and side cut-outs. So very 60s British underground scene, I feel, and also something both Freddie Mercury as well as David Bowie would parade with relish.
In the course of this collaboration, I've come to realise that the best words to describe Jodie's style are, "feminine", "ladylike", and "classic" with little accents that are fun, unexpected, and very whimsical. I mean, look at that fur pom pom charm right there!!!
Oh Charlotte, Charlotte, Charlotte. You look so French Riviera chic here. Nuff said.
And there we have it, my friends. Our trilogy of Black and White. I, we, really hope you've enjoyed the various looks created especially for this wee project. In case you missed it, read the first part here, and the second, here.
Do you pair black and white with print?
Love the series. Your shoes are killer. I can absolutely relate with your feelings on having a stylish daughter and wishing that you wore the same size shoes. As to how I pair black and white with print, you'll see it in Project Sister Act.
I loved reading your interviews Sheela—I commented on Eve's post that I was shocked you used to only wear black (I mean…I had that stage too in college—but long, long time ago). I had the impression you were always a print mixer extraordinaire??
But with your jewelry design background—you definitely have a creative flair & artistic personality!! I love hanging around women like you because it's so different than my first impulses!!
Thanks for this project—it's so fun to be part of a group!!
Love these black and white prints!
Totally loving this style hun! You rock!
Rad mix in prints! Amazing leggings and boots!
Lovely timeless outfit. I love the flipping the hair and twirling in the photos lately Sheela, definitely a comfortable in your own skin kind of lady for sure.
Fabulous outfit and definitely kickass booties, Sheela! I tried one of the color tests and it was about 50% accurate and now I don't remember what the results said! The other tests were acting up and not cooperating with me! (Maybe easily frustrated with technology was one of the results I got!) All of you ladies did a fabulous job on this series. It was such fun to follow. And Eve is absolutely amazing! If you ever doubt yourself, Sheela, for any reason, know that your success with that beautiful girl is something to be oh so eternally proud of!
I have one memory of a black outfit that always stands out in my mind as a testament to how truly amazing and timeless black clothing is! When Time Magazine published their issue with Princess Diana on the cover wearing a black turtleneck, my breath was literally taken away. Princess Diana was rarely ever seen wearing black, usually donning bold colors or pastels. She was always beautiful and obviously a style icon. But when she pared it down and went to basic black, she was stunning beyond anything…Do you remember that Time issue and that photo?
While black and white is a simple combination, it can be so complex in the statement it is making. I love this look on you, especially the subtle little pops of color that snuck in. Fabulous interview with your daughter…she is such a cool cool girl.
I'm like you (as usual); I often come off as outspoken, confident and perhaps a bit too bold, but all of that is just hiding the big bunch of little girl insecurities hiding underneath.
Prints on prints on prints!!! Love it all. I am still working on my mix print skills and being bold in that aspect, Till then I will just look at these and admire the work.
Love the black and white theme Sheelah, but those shoes!! You never disappoint!! Do you still have a link up? I thought you did. | too is in Black and White, fabricated from metallic threads. Isn't that epic?? As for the clutch, I felt it added a necessary punch of colour, echoing those around my neckline, in fact.
Remember those tests and quizzes we talked about on Monday? As promised, here are my results. So, based on this one, I'm in constant need of excitement and stimulation, someone who exacts very strict expectations of her partner (read: unrealistic and unachievable). Someone who often escapes into a fantasy world to elude feelings of helplessness, frustration and inadequacy. Hmm.
There's this one which says I'm vibrant and passionate and I belong in the red family. I'm determined, a leader, confident (ha), ambitious and, at times, overwhelming. True. The overwhelming bit. Women usually don't like me. Neither do Asian men. They find me overwhelming and intimidating. I'm not really, I promise. I'm quite nice and I make a good friend and I'm a bag of insecurities.
And the one I can relate to most says I'm competitive (yup), hardworking (yup), a lover of creativity and originality (oh yeah), an ambitious dreamer, highly independent with a passionate dislike for monotony. Impatient. Egoistic. Narcissistic. Reckless. Impulsive. All true.
Just for the fun of it, I interviewed my 17 year old daughter, Eve, seeking her thoughts on black, on white, on the evolution of her style. Here's what I discovered.
Q1. You grew up wearing pink frou frou dresses and now here you are, all about the statement tees and black outfits. How do you think that change happened?
A1. I started experimenting with graphic tees and dark colours after watching the movie Bandslam. One of the main characters, Sa5m (the 5 is silent), was a snarky teenager that always wore black and listened to heavy metal and reggae music. I was 10 when I saw the film and I thought she was the coolest thing on the planet. Up until that point, I'd never met nor seen anyone like her and I wanted to replicate her outfits. But by the time I started 8th grade, I began to take inspiration from Sa5m rather than try to become exactly like her.
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When the band Introduced each song with "We're Cerulean Blue...like a gentle breeze," donning masks that looked like<|fim_middle|> and picks out some of his favorite area bands and artists to play. This show premiered on WDIY 88.1 FM (Lehigh Valley's NPR Station) in June 2018. | they belonged at Carnival, we knew Cerulean Blue's session would be a memorable one. The four-piece experimental glam rock band from Philadelphia joined us at Shards in August 2017. The four songs they performed come from the band's new self-released EP Take It or Leave It.
Cerulean Blue was born out of the ashes of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Kevin Brusha's previous band, Walking Distance (listen to their Shards Session here). Cerulean Blue is made up of former Walking Distance bassist, Spyder, along with James on violin and Paul on drums. Kevin also formerly ran the Philly DIY venue The Nest, but since the end of the venue and the end of Walking Distance a few years ago, he admits in our interview that his future with music was uncertain.
Forming Cerulean Blue was a new beginning for the Philly musician, and just like the song which starts their set, a "Rebirth." Cerulean Blue is a band wrapped up in Kevin's love for the Beach Boys, Big Star, T. Rex, and David Bowie. "I just want to give someone that's listening that rock and roll experience while also giving them an off-putting experience, like 'where is this all going?'"
Philadelphia experimental glam rock band Cerulean Blue perform a Shards Session; plus Michigan City, Indiana music promoter Tim Bauer discusses the Northwest Indiana DIY music scene | 291 |
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Dr. Amrita Dass: A Trailblazer Guiding the Nation towards an Enlightened Destiny
Dr. Amrita Dass, Founder-Director, Institute for Career Studies International
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The ultimate aim of education is to prepare students for life with career choices that would tap their potential to the fullest. Hence, it is essential for them to access the expertise of career guidance counsellors. Keeping in mind that 'there are no ideal careers, only ideal choices, it is they who facilitate the best educational and career choices based on a student's aptitudes, interests, talents and aspirations.
Creating the legacy of pioneering such highly specialized services of career counselling and guidance in India is Dr. Amrita Dass (Founder-Director, Institute for Career Studies International and Chairperson & Managing Director, ICS Education Ltd.). A leading educationist and internationally renowned Career Consultant, she along with her sister Kavita Dass and eminent team of career counsellors have been empowering generations of students to be future-ready. Known for her deep knowledge, insights, and futuristic vision, Dr. Dass recently organized two conferences on Education 4.0 and Careers 4.0, bringing together all stakeholders to make the students future ready. These were the first ever to be held in the world!
"The top most priority of Education 4.0 must be the emphasis on personalization to match the capacity, requirements and pace of individual learners"
"As India is progressing towards Education 4.0, it has tremendous potential to achieve exponential growth of intellectual capital for the well being and prosperity of all. The top most priority of Education 4.0 must be the emphasis on personalization to match the capacity, requirements and pace of individual learners along with interactive, collaborative work. Judicious use of technology will make the entire learning process more engaging and impactful. Accordingly, the assessment systems must be based on analyzing a student's conceptual understanding and critical thinking skills through experiential learning based projects," says Dr. Dass.
A Pioneer Innovating Incessantly
Her 1985-established institute strives to sustain its first-mover advantage and retain its pioneering position in the field of career counselling with the introduction of innovative and state-of-the-art 'hi touch hi tech' counselling and guidance services. These are aligned with the emerging fourth industrial revolution and the consequent Careers 4.0 scenarios. Leveraging its in depth knowledge and hands-on experiential learning accumulated over the years, the institute has designed the first-of-its-kind Post Graduate Diploma in Career Counselling & Guidance a cutting-edge online course ware for counsellors & teachers. ICS enjoys the strategic position of implementing and facilitating both the latest trends in education (school & tertiary) and careers for making students future ready. The institution works closely with all stakeholders students, parents, teachers, eduleaders, corporate and policy makers to enable the myriad pathways from class to career and beyond.
ICS has the distinction of conducting its counselling and guidance programmes in more than 300 leading residential and day schools, colleges, universities and reaching-out to over 3,00,000 students through a dedicated team of eminent counsellors and professionals in India, Middle East and South Asia. Moreover, the institute is widely appreciated for designing and delivering a wide range of educational and professional training programmes for teachers and edu-leaders. Having successfully trained over 10,000 teachers and more than 1000 principals and edu-leaders since its inception, ICS also specializes in providing consultancy to educational institutions at various levels. Furthermore, the institute has forged alliances with foreign universities in UK, Canada, US, Singapore and Japan for various innovative student-centric programmes. Not stopping there, Dr. Dass has conducted Leadership Programmes for corporates, national and multinationals as well.
Reaping the Rewards of Perseverance
The first spark of her fascination for the education field was lit by her grandmother Dr. Constance Prem Nath Dass, (the iconic first Indian Principal of Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow from 1939-45) and aunt Dr. Mohini Dass, FRCOG, (an eminent gynaecologist). And the credit for her commendable leadership qualities goes to her parents, Amarjit Kumar Dass (the first Director General of Police, UP) and mother Tehrim Dass a renowned philanthropist and social worker. Their belief in her and encouragement at each stage played a vital role in developing Dr. Dass' potential to the fullest and excel in all her endeavors. Dr. Dass comments, "I have been abundantly blessed in my journey to have my parents and many family members as inspiring role models. Teaching, counselling, mentoring, leading, community service and philanthropy are deeply embedded in my DNA. Traversing the road less travelled has been a truly joyous and fulfilling one!".
Dr. Dass had a funfilled childhood, where she along with her four siblings got quality time from their parents in a nurturing, caring and loving environment, which shaped their personalities and made them a close-knit family with deep bonds. At a time when the search for a 'suitable boy' started even before the age of 18 years, her parents supported her in following her heart and making choices that resonated with her true callings in life. Dr. Dass was focused on pursuing doctoral studies and considering marriage only to an enlightened 'new age' man who believed in gender equality, equity and interdependence. "My friends often commented that this was 'an impossible dream' and so it was!" she quips.
As her entrepreneurial nature propelled her to make a difference in the world, she searched (before the advent of internet) for a fellowship that enabled her to pursue doctoral research at the University of London. This is where she realized that there were infinite opportunities that students were unaware of and decided to initiate career guidance services on her return. "When my mother suggested the name Institute for Career Studies for my dream venture, I exclaimed that this was too big a name for a startup. She responded, 'you will grow into it'. Her words were truly prophetic!"recollects Dr. Dass.
The assessment systems must be based on analyzing a student's conceptual understanding and critical thinking skills through experiential learning based projects
However, it wasn't all rosy three and a half decades back, due to the lack of awareness regarding the pressing need for Career Counselling & Guidance. Transforming the mindsets of educationists and parents, changing stereotypes and getting them to appreciate its importance in the students' lives for success in a 'Career by Choice not Chance' was an uphill task. But hard work and perseverance had been her hallmark even before she embarked on her entrepreneurial venture. Fast forward to three and a half decades, under Dr. Dass' able guidance, ICS stands tall as a pioneer which was recognized with The Times Group 'Award for Excellence in Education' for its outstanding contribution.
Worldwide Appreciation
Needless to say, Dr. Dass' professional and philanthropic contribution has received many accolades as well. In fact, her biography has been included in the Who's Who in the World 2015 (32nd Ed.) for exemplary contribution in the fields of Education and Career Guidance. Dr. Dass has presented papers and participated in many international conferences, including the UN World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, Sweden), the UN Conference on Women (Beijing), the State of the World Forum (San Francisco), the International Women's Dialogue (Houston), and the Global Knowledge Partnership(GKPII) meeting at Kuala Lumpur organized by the World Bank.
An internationally renowned career consultant, she has been invited by several government entities worldwide, including the British Council (to visit eight UK Universities), Singapore Education Board (spearheaded a group of educationists to Universities & Institutes of Higher Learning), Canadian Education Centre (led a group of renowned Heads of Schools & Educationists to 16 Canadian universities), American University of Barbados (as a Guest of Honor) and recently<|fim_middle|> while pursuing her B.A. at the Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, along with two gold medals in M.A. from Lucknow University for securing the first position and topping the History Department. She is a columnist for many leading Indian newspapers & magazines and writes on a wide range of educational, career, socioeconomic development and leadership issues. Being multifaceted, she recently landed an unexpected role in 'A Suitable Boy' a forthcoming BBC production directed by Meera Nair.
Favorite Hobbies: Travel, photography, reading, gardening and watching interesting movies.
Favorite Cuisines: Awadhi
Favorite Destinations: Having travelled widely across the globe, she has seen the celestial Northern Lights. Natural beauty, history and culture being the priorities for her travel destinations, she plans to visit South America and the Antarctica in 2020.
Maintaining WorkLife Balance: Dr. Dass' day gets a flying start with yoga. Time management with mindful prioritizing on both professional and personal fronts is what enables her to focus on the concept of Kairos(quality time).
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Education 4.0 is 'an idea whose time has come!'. Hence, you have a central role in shaping the destiny of students, the nation and the world. Do this with passion and compassion to make a significant difference.
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•Rotary Award for Vocational Excellence
•TCS-Women Achiever of the Year Award
•Outstanding Women Achiever Award by LMA
•Her biography has been included in the Who's Who in the World 2015(32nd Ed.) for exemplary contribution in the fields of Education and Career Guidance
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© 2021 CEO Insights All Rights Reserved.Privacy Policy | by Nagoya University, Japan to conduct a special session on 'Being Future-Ready'. She was also a Special Invitee for the Patrician Conference on Education in Ireland in 2008 and co-chaired the Global Leadership Conclave for School Principals in Singapore in 2007.
In keeping with her vision for being future-ready, Dr. Dass has developed a strategic action plan for the optimal use of technology to upscale ICS' reach pan India and globally. This will facilitate ideal educational and career choices! She aims to connect meaningfully with all stakeholders students, parents, teachers, counsellors, principals and so on, for creating an enabling educational ecosystem along with substantial value proposition. "We aspire to ensure the holistic development, mindfulness, happiness, success and fulfillment of each student as an ongoing process in their journey from Class to Career and Beyond! We will continue to hone the professional knowledge and skills of educators, counsellors and edu-leaders to respond effectively to the challenges of Education and Careers 4.0," concludes Dr. Dass.
Dr. Amrita Dass, Founder-Director
Dr. Dass was an extraordinary student who was awarded the Mary E. Shannon & Mrs. Prem Nath Dass merit scholarships and Best Woman of the Year trophy | 263 |
The Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) was consecrated in 1409 after the 13th century Oude (Old) Kerk's congregation had vastly outgrown its<|fim_middle|> most recently during my visit as an exhibition space for World Press Photo of the Year.
This entry was posted in Amsterdam, Chapel, Church, Grave, Inauguration Site, Kerk, Kirk, Netherlands, Tomb, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. | capacity. The church was dedicated to St Catherine and its position beside the Royal Palace quickly made it a focal point of Amsterdam life. The Nieuwe Kerk served more than just ecclesiastical purposes throughout the centuries, being used a times as a commercial exchange, a music venue and an auditorium for graduations. The church fell victim to three damaging fires, two in the 15th century, but the worst came in the devastating fire of 1645 leaving the building roofless and its structure charred. It was after this fire that the Kerk was renovated in a more Gothic style, many of the features we see today date from this time. The pulpit, the brass choir screen and the organ, the largest organ in the Netherlands, all date from the 17th century restoration. Around 10,000 bodies lie permanently buried in the Nieuwe Kerk, including the writers such as P.C. Hooft, Joost van den Vondel and Isaac da Costa. The burying of bodies within the church was outlawed in 1866.
Due to its position next to the Royal Palace inaugurations have occurred here since the early 19th century, Willem I being the foremost in 1814 and the most recent King Willem-Alexander in 2013, who also got married in the Kerk in 2002. Further neo-Gothic flourishes were added between 1892 and 1914. Additional renovations between 1959-80 proved so expensive that the Dutch Reformed Church transferred ownership to a cultural foundation called the Nationale Stichting De Nieuwe Kerk in 1979. Since then it has been used for music performances, art installations, and | 378 |
Teaching our children the lifelong skill of being with our feelings.
As I continued to listen I made my way to the hallway to get a better view of this beautiful interaction. As the teacher got down to the little girl's level, she prompted her to take the picture of herself and place it beneath the visual of a sad face located on the feelings poster on classroom door. Then, in a nurturing way, walked with her into the classroom.
You see, the students get to start their day off at preschool everyday exploring how<|fim_middle|> how to be with what we are feeling whatever that feeling is – happy, disappointed, angry, silly or embarrassed.
It's okay to have these feelings. When we learn to take a moment and pay attention to what it is we are actually feeling, we can learn that feelings won't hurt us. Feelings are not something that we have to avoid, push away, or even cling to. When we learn to make friends with our feelings, whatever they may be, we learn that they don't last forever. Feelings, like everything in life, are impermanent; they come and they go. And when this lesson is learned it opens the door to learning how to cope with our feelings more skillfully when they do arise.
So the next time your child appears sad, disappointed or even happy notice how they are feeling. Help them label the feeling. Ask them what it feels like in their body. Give them permission to feel whatever it is they are feeling. Then explore what they might do to cope with this feeling, teaching your child that the feeling won't last forever and that there are many positive ways to cope with a feeling.
When you take the time to teach your child the skill of being aware of their feelings, give them permission to feel whatever they're feeling, and then help them cope with that feeling, you are teaching them a lifelong skill of dealing with the ups and downs of what we call life.
Author: Jen Rapanos is a licensed clinical social worker, registered children's yoga teacher, and founder of Well-Bean. Drawing from almost two decades of experience working in schools and as a clinician, Jen blends her comprehensive background in mental health with training in mindfulness and yoga to offer an integrated and holistic approach to treatment.
© Copyright 2015 Well-Bean Kid's Yoga & Mindfulness Programs. All rights reserved. | they are feeling at that particular moment: happy, sad, silly, hungry, mad or sleepy. Observing this interaction brought to mind a couple of things that I would like to draw attention to. First, with her actions the teacher was saying to this child, I see you, I hear you, and acknowledge what you're experiencing.
It's so important to be seen and heard; it's a beautiful way to connect with a child and to validate their feelings. By noticing how a child may be feeling by observing their verbal or non-verbal cues, you help them identify and label their experience.
Secondly, the teacher was teaching the skill of stopping and paying attention to the moment. Every day she gives her students permission to stop, explore and notice for just a moment what they are feeling. As adults we often move through our days on autopilot, completely disconnected and unaware of our thoughts and feelings and how they may be impacting us.
Lastly, the teacher taught the little girl that whatever she was feeling was okay. She gave her permission to be sad and then they were able to move forward with the day. How often do we dismiss how our children (or ourselves) are actually feeling? The teacher could have replied, "You're fine. You'll see your mom soon." Sometimes we try to fix what our children are feeling so that they don't have to experience discomfort. "Oh, don't be sad; let's go inside and play." Often, we miss out on these teaching opportunities all together by completely ignoring feelings by not acknowledging them at all.
By teaching our children to be mindful of how they are feeling we are building a strong foundation for learning | 336 |
The animals above are related to llamas, and are called guanacos.
The scenery in this part of the world is staggering in its beauty and enormity.
These mountains are part of the Andes and these in the Torres del Paine park make up a group called the Cordillera Paine.
They are granite peaks and the elevations have not been measured with reliable accuracy<|fim_middle|> we got a little closer..
We had run into a handful of people along our way but it was quiet and still felt secluded.
We made our way down to a little beach with clear, ice-cold water and took some time to enjoy the moment. The beach was rocky, at the bottom of a fairly steep hill we scrambled down.
We were so happy with how our day was turning out. We had already seen so much of the park and there was still more to do. We had plenty of time to sit back and enjoy all that nature had to offer..
What an amazing trip! I hope I get there before I die! | , so take it with a grain of salt that the highest peak is said to be 2,884 meters/9,462 feet.
They certainly looked impressive enough to me.
Lucky for us, there were some places to pull off and snap photos. This was a great day.
We experienced many types of weather. It was sunny and gorgeous, it got really cloudy and overcast, and we got precipitation in the form of rain and snow. We had prepared well by dressing in lots of layers and water-resistant stuff. One thing was constant: wind.
It was time to take a real hike, and we parked in a little lot and set off on a stroll that wasn't difficult and took a little over an hour. The views were still incredible, and | 158 |
The derelict white building hiding a very raucous past
It was a hugely popular place for raves
Tom KershawSenior Live Reporter
Kilpin Country Club in its heyday
It was once the place to be every Friday night - and everyone has their own memory of it.
Kilpin Country Club played host to the likes of Jon Culshaw and Roy Chubby Brown, but in its twilight years, the gentlemen's club turned nightclub would be known for its out of control rave nights.
A 90s club night called Dizstruxshon hired the venue which really put Howden on the map. Two different generations remember the club in different ways, which makes it even more of a shame that the club remains derelict to this day.
No taxis, being thrown out head-first by the bouncers and 'strawbz' were the some of the memories from those who look back on the club's heyday.
In the mid-90s, drugs came hand in hand with the rave scene which had developed and ravers from Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds descended on the small club.
It was a very popular club and people in the surrounding areas still reminisce about the good times
Urban legend has it that a woman from Selby was found dead in a nearby field after attending the club which resulted in the club's licence put under review and later being revoked.
Clippings from the Goole Courier's report of an inquest show her death was found to be none other than a tragic accident.
Today the building, situated on the sharp bend between Eastrington and Howden, is surrounded by crop fields and shielded by huge conifer trees.
It remains, as it has been for the past 20 years, a derelict eyesore.
It is obvious from speaking about the life and times of the club it is remembered by two different generations who say it offered them escapism.
The long-serving manager of the club passed away several years ago, but Hull Live tracked down his daughter who lifted the lid on what it was like working at the club for over two decades.
Fun and games at the club in the 1980s
Helen Lancaster said: "I remember my dad and all the members of staff, who were loyal and hardworking for him - including myself and my family.
"The nightclub itself was managed by my father until it was leased by another gentleman and where my dad worked for him, again as manager.
"Prior to the new lease it had been a nightclub, and a gym with squash courts, to jog my memory I think there had been car boot sales on Sunday mornings too.
'It was always busy and successful'
"There was a gentleman's evening on a Thursday, I had worked only once for this occasion - nothing too much really exciting I'm afraid. It was always busy and successful and people liked to go there, we all liked working as my dad was a nice man who all the staff enjoyed working for.
"When the 'scene' changed in the early 1990s , the two main rooms were rented for the evening - a promotions company called Dizstruxshon and another promotion company, called Kick. The atmosphere was very happy and there was generally no trouble on these nights.
The hugely popular Hull nightclub which became a 'den of vice'
"They were rather successful and many many famous DJs travelled here from miles! The events ran for a good few years, if I remember correctly about four or five years.
"The problem was that the local police and locals, which I can understand, who did not like this type of fashion. It [the club] started to get a bad reputation and eventually a report was made in the local newspapers.
"My dad was unaware of its true nature, bless him. The club's final demise and closure came and ended the Kilpin Country Club.
"It had had its day and ran its course, it needed new refurbishment and with a stained reputation, on renewal of the licence, it was not granted and the end was nigh. After this, I believe It became a place for lorries to park up.
"It was a big shame for the loss of unemployment to the staff. Everybody found new employment and the club was forgotten."
Dizstruxshon nights were top of the agenda and ravers travelled over 100 miles to the venue
The club, which opened in 1978, was also the 'go to place' for stag and hen parties, including male stripper nights called 'The Climax' in the early 90s and naked women mud wrestling in 1987.
It is also remembered for its "sticky carpets" and doormen who wouldn't take any nonsense.
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The two large rooms at the venue were split into squash courts with very well-run and popular gymnastic classes taking place at the day in one room and next door was a bar and function room.
It had originally opened as a restaurant, but had multiple uses over the years - including playing host to Howden School's PE lessons while its own sports hall was being built.
'It was the place to be'
Many people have shared their experiences of the venue on social media..
Jackie Thompson said: "I organised a bus there for my 21st, so it must have been 1982.
"We went there from it first opening, I am sure we saw Boney M and Sweet Sensation there in the late 70s. It was the place to be."
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Describing her memories, Vicky Townsley said: "I have very fond childhood memories of Kilpin Country Club! I completed all my gymnastics there. And my squash playing days - it had a posh glass front court. Also celebrating all different occasions in the function room.
"I remember it as a teenager and young adult in the 1980s. There were many, many fantastic nights partying - Motown eat your heart out. This is where Goole and Howden came together. Good time and bad - with the fighting too.
"In the 1990s the rave culture hit, which then spiralled poor Kilpin to its end."
Kilpin Country Club was well attended for over two decades
Another reveller, who wished to remain anonymous, added: "Best nightclub, some right nights there! Drinking Castaway and Diamond White lol.
"Tunes that always take me back there are James - Sit Down, Rozalla - Everybody's Free, Oceanic - Insanity...
"There were a fair few fights also used to go on there. Some people used to make money by doing there own taxi runs from Aire Street in Goole to Kilpin... Great memories."
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A handful of Goole residents remember making a fortune from driving people to and from the nightclub in the 80s.
"No one wanted to walk the distance - so you could charge whatever you wanted to get people back to Goole," one added.
However, among the fond memories there seems to be quite a few bad ones.
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Fuelled by the century-long feud between 'Howdeners and Goolies', and adding ravers from across the M62 to its door, there were some ugly scenes.
Many revellers and ravers have admitted they used to call the club's car park as "blood alley" and one even claimed her friend was beaten by the bouncers with chains.
'There was a lot of acid going around'
Describing the scene in the 90s, Ben Hatton, 40, said: "I remember there were no rules at all, they let anyone in. I know for a fact there was a<|fim_middle|> were these things called Stawbz and you would be just off your face from the moment you took it. They were usually taken outside the club and then we went in.
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"There was a lot of 20/20 booze going around as well. Little sup of that before we went inside. The bouncers were crazy though, I remember that much - they would literally throw people out the building head first."
No matter what you thought of the venue, its discos and its demise - it will live long in the memory for those associated with the villages and towns that surround it.
Do you have a story from the club that you think is worth telling? Email thomas.kershaw@reachplc.com.
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Why Traditional Security Is Failing Us
Angela Dennis
This is the first part of a two-part series that explores the reasons behind the failure of security technologies to protect companies and their data from emerging<|fim_middle|>, the author discusses the failure of patch culture and the role of application development in resolving the failure of traditional security in the enterprise.
— Brian Stoner | threats in the age of cloud, connected devices and an ever-expanding threat surface.
After working in the cybersecurity industry for the last 15 years, what I find most striking is that, despite all the money spent on cyberdefense, the number of data breaches every year continues to increase. Data theft is now so common that, according to a report by McAfee, more than 6 out of 10 IT professionals have experienced a serious data breach.
While it may seem counterintuitive, growing reliance on technology is making companies more vulnerable. Both intruders from outside the network, as well as inside threats, are evolving with our defenses as connected devices proliferate and migration of sensitive data assets to the cloud present a lucrative target. With each technological advancement for business, assaults on our computing resources become more sophisticated as we broaden the attack surface.
Too Much Security Technology Monitoring Networks
Since the beginning of cybersecurity, most companies have focused the majority of their spend on ensuring that they wall off their core infrastructure with the best technology to stop attackers from getting in. Every time a new threat or attack vector emerged, we added another network technology to protect the business from it.
Eventually, we had too many consoles to monitor or correlate information between and the security information and event management (SIEM) market was born. Initially, SIEM promised to help us reduce all of the alert fatigue and help us find the root cause of every problem. Unfortunately, SIEM's initial promise didn't work out as advertised and became another extremely complex piece of technology that was even more difficult to manage than the network appliances it was meant to protect. SIEM did one thing well that made it worth paying for, though: It provided compliance reports.
The dirty little secret of the security industry is rooted in a small company that was acquired by Google called Virus Total. The single source of truth, and the source of new signatures on a daily basis, was Virus Total. Nearly all security vendors use Virus Total to prove whether a threat they have identified with their solution is new. Security manufacturers also trade their signatures with Virus Total so they can access the broad library of threats that they catalog.
Tools like anti-virus products package the Virus Total signatures into DAT files that are sent to their scanning engines on their customers' machines on a daily or weekly basis. The core technology is the same for all AV manufacturers. Since 90%+ of the signatures in the DAT files are essentially the same, there were only minor variances between the different AV products for many years in terms of performance. If your firewall and IDS/IPS are also using the same signatures as your AV, there is a good chance that a threat unknown to Virus Total would be successful on your network.
Unless "patient zero" has been infected and identified, Virus Total will not have a signature for a net new threat. Attackers are well aware of this and have built tools that recompile old malware or generate net new vulnerabilities. They even trade malware on the dark web for bitcoin as a service. If the malware isn't successful, they will build you new versions until it is. Malware is proliferating at rates that will soon be unmanageable by traditional security-as-an-afterthought technology. This illustrates the reactive nature of the entire security industry.
Advanced Detection Technologies and AI
Advanced detection technologies also have their challenges. When I worked at FireEye, sandboxing was the popular way to detect net new threats that were unknown to Virus Total. During my time there, where I directed technology alliances, we built more than 60 integrations with other manufacturers.
However, attackers knew this and began encrypting their payloads. Unless everything is decrypted before it is analyzed by the sandbox, nothing would be found. FireEye partnered with another manufacturer that had an appliance capable of decrypting network traffic. That significantly improved its ability to identify new threats for a period of time. Next, the attackers found a new way to plant their code without letting it run until the sandbox timed out. Several other strategies have been developed by attackers since and the game continues. Sandboxing is still the preferred method for forensics once a threat is found, but by that point, someone has already been infected.
The next challenge for advanced detection is that most of the modules that are a part of the larger security product platforms require an outbound internet connection to the manufacturer's cloud. Take away that connection and the efficacy and effectiveness of these solutions drop significantly. They are essentially using your "bad day" to educate the rest of their platform.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for the last few years, and AI and machine learning (ML) are widely marketed by almost all manufacturers. However, the maturity of their use and effectiveness is very hard to gauge. The use of AI is great for doing things such as breaking down complex code, and ML can then be used to look for repeating patterns.
What they require to be efficient and effective are very large data sets on which to train the AI models, but it can take years and terabytes of data to make them useful. There are evolving maturity models for how companies use AI to help demonstrate their effectiveness. Companies that have been using AI and ML for more than four years have a better chance that the technology has reached a level of maturity to provide real protection.
Customers believed that there was no way to stop every new threat to their environments, so endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology became the next big thing in security. If you can't stop the bad guys, then record everything and hire an extremely expensive forensics team to dig through the data. Most customers do not have the resources or budget to do ongoing threat hunting on their networks. The EDR manufacturers were more than happy to develop those services for their customers. You can hire the company that sold you the technology that is not stopping the attacks to watch it for you. The vendors call that managed EDR. I call that the fox watching the hen house.
Orchestration is another big buzzword. The goal of these tools is to do what SIEM promised several years ago. They are designed to automate the remediation of threats automatically. Some use AI and ML, but most of them require significant ongoing configuration to be effective. Unfortunately, this is another after-the-fact technology because it relies on all of the other security products in your network to provide information to do the job.
Legacy security vendors have been trapped in a complicated, losing cycle of software patches and updates, of their own making. Customer infrastructure continues to get more and more abstracted from traditional network and data center infrastructure. Legacy solutions were never designed to support these new cloud-based infrastructures. We are starting to see new models for prevention, detection and resolution with security-as-a-service (SECaaS) providers.
We need to stop playing catch up after the fact, and get ahead of the game and focus on what the bad actors actually want: the data. By understanding how our data flows, creating and enforcing policies that help to govern that flow while protecting the data in a place when it is not flowing should mean that threats to data can be reduced to nearly zero and digital trust can be restored.
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This works best with 'Buy It Now's, but is also effective<|fim_middle|> an offer to end the auction early. All they can do is say no.
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Our son's birthday was a HUGE hit thanks to Marshland Jumps! I was very impressed with how clean our bouncy house was. These guys are the best around!
Wow! This is the most professional moon bounce company I have ever dealt with!! The employees arrived on time and were extremely nice. And the jumper was spotless! | slides, bounce houses, combos, and dry slides. Our inflatables are affordable and fun for all ages and can be rented for One day, Two days, or even weekly rentals. We offer the cleanest jumps around, all of our units are cleaned on a regular basis so you can rest assured all of your party goers will enjoy hours and hours of fun in a clean, safe environment.
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On a day that the referee grabbed the headlines, Wolverhampton Wanderers earned a draw courtesy of a Raul Jimenez penalty.
It was an afternoon of controversy at the Vitality Stadium - with Referee Roger East at the heart of it with three first half decisions that went the Cher<|fim_middle|>Jonny - 7 - Tested by Ibe's pace in the first half. Otherwise a fairly solid game defensively, but like Doherty he didn't get forward as much as he or the manager would have liked.
Neves - 6 - A rare off day. Although not poor, it would be fair to say that by his standards, he was very average today. Never really got the chance to dictate the play in a very congested centre midfield area.
Dendoncker - 6 - Some uncharacteristic poor passes and touches in the first half. Had two half chances with headers from corners within the space of a few minutes, unlucky. A much improved second half performance, but not his usual self.
Jota - 6 - Booked for furiously protesting what was a clear handball and penalty for Wolves in the first half. Had one cross-shot in the second half that nearly found Jimenez. Started the game very well but faded.
Jimenez - 7 - A solid game from the Mexican who lead the line well and linked play when he could. An ice cool finish from the spot, but didn't quite find the level he found a few weeks ago.
Cavaleiro - 7 - A positive impact and linked the play with some nice touches, also strong and very determined. Made a difference.
Traore - 7 - Like Cavaleiro he really helped Wolves find momentum in a game that was slowly slipping away from them. Terrified Bournemouth's back line with his ridiculous pace. | ries way and left the Wolves fans furious.
Patricio - 6 - No chance with the penalty. A great save 1-0 to keep Wolves in the game. Reasonable distribution and did all that was asked of him.
Bennett - 6 - Booked for a late challenge early in the second half. Defensively solid and won all his headers, but probably a little wasteful with some of the passes he tried to play down the line.
Coady - 6 - A limited amount of trademark cross-field passes, which meant it was mainly a game of tidying up and short distribution. A faultless yet unspectacular performance.
Boly - 7 - Defensively solid but not his usual quality you'd expect from him with the balls he tried to play forward, yet he was still Wolves clear standout defender.
Doherty - 7 - Beat his man after 50 seconds, which earned his marker Adam Smith an early booking, but throughout the game he didn't get forward as much as he or Nuno would have liked. A decent game for the Irishman.
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Mini-Review: The Blob (1988)
Starring Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca, Del Close, Paul McCrane, Sharon Spelman, Beau Billingslea, Art LaFleur
Directed by Chuck Russell
Expectations: Low. This one never interested me for some reason, but here I am watching it.
Oh wow, I love it when this<|fim_middle|>. There's definitely a similar air of "You don't fuck with country folk," reinforced by the scene where members of Swayze's family all band together and take down the mafia men with crossbows in a shadowy graveyard.
Next of Kin isn't great by any stretch of the imagination, but it is pretty fun in spots and worth watching to see so many young actors packed into one movie. Also, I'm glad Ben Stiller lost that unibrow.
February 24, 2011 - 6:00 Will 1980s, Action, Drama, Mini-Reviews, Movie Reviews, Rating: 2 Stars
1989, Adam Baldwin, Andreas Katsulas, Ben Stiller, Bill Paxton, Del Close, Helen Hunt, John Irvin, Liam Neeson, Michael J. Pollard, Patrick Swayze, Ted Levine | happens. I've watched horror movies for years now and sometimes I get to thinking I've seen all the fun ones already. The Blob is not only one of the most fun horror movies I've seen in a while, it's one of the most fun I've ever seen. They truly go for broke on this one, with lots of good 80s clichés and absolutely amazing physical FX. I went into this one with pretty low expectations for some reason, but I came out hootin', hollerin' and havin' an absolute blast.
The film starts out very ominously as the credits fade in over quiet, well-composed shots of the barren, small town where The Blob takes place. Eventually we get to the high school football game where apparently everyone in town is rooting on their team. Here we meet our first couple of main characters (a player and a cheerleader), but before this scene can play out completely, director Chuck Russell crosscuts the cheering crowd with the leather jacket wearin', motorcycle drivin', bad boy Brian as he tries to jump a washed out bridge on his bike. These opening scenes perfectly set up the town we'll be inhabiting for the next ninety minutes, as well as foreshadowing a key moment that I wouldn't dare spoil here. Trust me, it's awesome in the way that only an 80s movie can be awesome.
In addition to story tropes that only 80s movies can pull off effectively (but that shouldn't stop modern filmmakers from trying!), The Blob is notable for its kick-fucking-ass special FX by the impressive Tony Gardner. He's worked within many genres over the course of almost thirty years, and recently was responsible for the realistic prosthetic arm that James Franco cut off in 127 Hours. I'm a huge fan of physical FX and even I am speechless at how great the FX look in The Blob. The kills are nothing short of incredible and ridiculously inventive, ranging from phone booth crushings to a dude that literally gets sucked down a sink drain. It's a smorgasbord of awesome and this film should be required viewing for anyone looking to make a modern horror film. Horror has lost so much of the fun it once had. Where modern horror focuses almost exclusively on realism and torture porn squirm scares, the 80s had a sense of heightened reality that allowed the films to go above and beyond what realism can offer, resulting in films that are relentlessly fun.
On top of all that goodness, director Chuck Russell actually knows how to shoot and edit a movie! Imagine that! The cinematography is rich and colorful, perfectly complementing the beautifully composed shots and FX. I really can't believe more people aren't talking about this one, as it is so well made and so very much fun. If you like 80s horror, you simply must watch The Blob.
December 5, 2011 - 5:20 Will 1980s, Horror, Movie Reviews, Rating: 3.5 Stars, Science Fiction, Will's Reviews
1988, Art LaFleur, Beau Billingslea, Candy Clark, Chuck Russell, Del Close, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joe Seneca, Kevin Dillon, Paul McCrane, Sharon Spelman, Shawnee Smith, The Blob
Mini-Review: Next of Kin (1989)
Starring Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Ben Stiller, Andreas Katsulas, Michael J. Pollard, Ted Levine, Del Close
Directed by John Irvin
Expectations: Low, but the star power here is worth a shot.
Patrick Swayze plays a tough Chicago cop who hails originally from the backwoods that has to step up to the challenge when the mob murders his brother! His justice isn't swift enough for his other brother (Liam Neeson), who comes down from the mountain on a hunt for vengeance. Sounds good, right?
Unfortunately, it's just OK. Next of Kin has definite flashes of greatness, such as the train rooftop sequence, but more often than not, the film is characterized by mediocre dialogue and a boring plot. It's also much too long for its own good. The sheer amount of future star talent should not be overlooked though, and Next of Kin will forever remain of interest to film fans for this. Liam Neeson is especially good as Swayze's brother. While it may be a footnote to his illustrious career, it is another great performance from the always dependable Neeson.
In yesterday's look at Winter's Bone, I noted that the characters in it were realistic and didn't exhibit the traditional stereotyped hillbilly personas. Next of Kin fares surprisingly well in this regard as well, with the country folk never feeling stupid or the butt of cheap jokes | 1,003 |
Has News<|fim_middle|> | Site TechPulse 360 Bit The Dust?
TechPulse360 is, or was, a daily news site focused on tech and clean tech, run by Mark Boslet, a former journalist at San Jose Mercury News, and Jean-Baptise Su, a veteran Silicon Valley correspondent for numerous publications.
TechPulse 360 is about two years old. Its most recent entry was more than one month ago:
http://techpulse360.com/2010/10/26/video-paypal-ceo-absolutely-no-plans-to-go-ipo/
At the PayPal X conference in San Francisco, PayPal president Scott Thompson confirmed once more that the San Jose, Calif.-based company has no plans to go IPO anytime soon. "We're happy to be part of eBay, and I don't believe that it's likely to change anytime soon!"
The last time I saw Mark Boslet was at the DEMO conference earlier this year. He said he had picked up some work writing white papers for various tech companies.
The demise of TechPulse 360 is a sad event because it was run by media professionals and employed a high standard of reporting. But quality content does not mean that it can survive in today's media world where quantity is rewarded over quality, and where you need to pay attention to "page view journalism" rather than seeking out the best stories.
It used to be the case that quality content was able to find a large readership on the Internet. But with the noise level rising, you have to be an astute marketeer to gain an audience today. | 330 |
Sanger Institute - Publications 1992
Number of papers published in 1992: 2
The C. elegans genome sequencing project: a beginning.
Sulston J, Du Z, Thomas K, Wilson R, Hillier L, Staden R, Halloran N, Green P, Thierry-Mieg J, Qiu L et al.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
The long-term goal of this project is the elucidation of the complete sequence of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. During the first year methods have been developed and a strategy implemented that is amenable to large-scale sequencing. The three cosmids sequenced in this initial phase are surprisingly rich in genes, many of which have mammalian homologues.
Nature 1992;356;6364;37-41
PUBMED: 1538779; DOI: 10.1038/356037a0
A survey of expressed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Waterston R, Martin C, Craxton M, Huynh C, Coulson A, Hillier L, Durbin R, Green P, Shownkeen R, Halloran N et al.
Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110.
As an adjunct to the genomic sequencing of Caenorhabditis elegans, we have investigated a representative cDNA library of 1,517 clones. A single sequence read has been obtained from the 5' end of each clone, allowing its characterization with respect to the public databases, and the clones are being localized on the genome map. The result is the identification of about 1,200 of the estimated 15,000 genes of C. elegans. More than 30% of the inferred protein sequences have significant similarity to existing sequences in the databases, providing a route towards in vivo analysis of known genes in the nematode. These clones also provide material for assessing the accuracy of predicted exons and splicing patterns and will lead to a more<|fim_middle|>-23
PUBMED: 1302004; DOI: 10.1038/ng0592-114
PhD theses
MPhil theses
URI: ; retrieved at 08.19 pm, 16th July 2019 | accurate estimate of the total number of genes in the organism than has hitherto been available.
Nature genetics 1992;1;2;114 | 34 |
Best Happy Hour in Orange County! All Day Mondays & Tuesdays!
Hmm, are you ready for another awesome week? Wanna start off on the right foot? Then come on in to Sushi World, home of the best happy hour in all of OC! $2.50 sushi: peppered salmon (<|fim_middle|> It's a pretty easy one, especially if you enjoy sushi the way we do. I was going to pick a bad picture of it so that it would be even harder to guess but I felt generous today. Guess the type of sushi it is and get a free sake. Simple as that. We will give you till Friday to guess it. We'll notify everyone who guess correctly to fill out our email newsletter form before getting their free sake coupon. Now get to guessing that sushi! | pictured), salmon, yellowtail, albacore, masago, shrimp, natto, and escolar. For $2.50, you get 2 pieces, so that comes out to be $1.25 for a piece of sushi. I'm not good at math but that looks like the best deal for happy hour in Orange County. We also have $2.50 sake, $3.50 appetizers, and $10 Sapporo pitchers. Let's do this!
Happy Sushi Sunday! Omakase Style!
It's Sunday! Time for some football! And for some sushi! Why not come by and watch the game with us? Kick back and enjoy the game as our chefs prepare delicious morsels of sushi for you. Feel free to leave it in their hands and they'll come up with some tasty combinations for you. Remember that if you come in between 2pm and 5pm, it's happy hour. Yes, even on the weekends, we have happy hour, the best happy hour in the OC!
Do you like a lot of tuna in your sushi roll? If so, you should really try out our Black Dragon Roll. It features a spicy tuna center, along with cucumber and avocado, and then it is topped with a peppered tuna. On top of that is a slice of serrano pepper, red onions, and a ponzu sauce. Absolutely delicious and full of flavor, from the tuna, to the serrano pepper, to the ponzu sauce, all of the flavors complement one another nicely. Have a nice weekend, everyone!
What's That Sushi Wednesday! This is an Easy One!
Okay, are you ready for this week's installment of, "What's That Sushi Wednesday?" | 361 |
Leverage Points Into A System (For future reference).
I will be referring back to this list throughout the course of my writing on this blog. I am interested in solving the problems of runners by looking not at biomechanics, or society, but at the behavior of systems that<|fim_middle|> that our bodies are systems that behave in highly complex ways. They are not merely performance machines to be trained. They respond to the very same leverage points that change the behavior of dynamic systems—and to all of them.
Much of the future discussion on this blog will be to illustrate how many of our modern training methods deal primarily deal with only a few leverage points, and usually those of least effectiveness. The rest of the discussion here will be of how we can utilize the knowledge of the most powerful leverage points to create changes in our life and training that lead to sustainable and continuous gains in our athletic development.
Previous PostOn the topic of paradigm shiftsNext PostThe "hip complex:" The body's differential. | are usually hybrids of the mechanical, biological, social and psychological realities that we all face and negotiate as runners, and as people. Discussing and understanding these leverage points is key, in order (for us runners) to stop understanding our bodies simply as athletic beings, and to look both outward and inward, to see what we can change, and how we can change it.
I share this list in order to illustrate the point | 85 |
Last Monday, 2am: I was driving home from a gig when l felt the adrenaline finally leave my chest. It was at that moment I realized how difficult this show was. The room was almost impossible to command: People were constantly talking over the music, the PA mix was never right and I had to be combative just to keep their attention.
I just played the First Capital Dispensing Company... the same bar I cut my teeth at for the last five years!
Maybe it was because I hadn't played that bar in a while. Maybe It was just a moment of clarity. Either way, I got a<|fim_middle|> attention of the impossible crowd in that bar. Now when we perform our bombastic show at a 'normal' club, we destroy the place and make legions of new fans. Bar owners tell us they've never seen such an energetic show. Attendees ask us where we came up with our live concept.
Truth be told, it developed when we were just trying to make the First Cap crowd shut up.
Are you working toward something big? Following your calling? Charging at windmills in search of the beautiful Dulcinea? Keep at it! Keep honing your craft. Don't let the bastards get you down.
At the same time, let me tell you that it might take a lot longer than you expected. It might take years...even a decade or more. (Trust me...) Most people give up after getting knocked down a couple times. You're not gonna give up, right?
If you're really doing what God has asked you to do, then keep at it. Right now in that time of waiting, you could be developing in ways that will enable you to command any stage, anywhere.
You won't see it until much later. Probably in a moment of clarity after the adrenaline has rushed out at 2am.
An artistic statement as much as a playable cigar box guitar. Originally, these Kuba cigar boxes were made with a long plastic window in the front to show off the stogies inside. I've replaced the plastic with a piece of Catholic Confessional-style tin screen which becomes the soundhole. It gives the guitar body a classic look...like you could whisper prayers of desperation thru it.
The guitar is wired up with an internal contact mic and sounds great thru an amp. But you should hear it unplugged...it's heavenly.
Shane Speal's Snake Oil Band cd Holler!
We were blown away by the news that two different music writers included our latest album, Holler! in their best of 2014 lists. The Mental Metal Trivia Show put us at #5 in their Top 20 (beating out Brian Setzer, Devon Allman and Scott H. Biram) and Blues Biscuits has us in their random top CD list.
"Pure fun on every level. Put this one on, crank it loud, and piss off the neighbors!"
"If Rob Zombie had a jug band, it would sound like this!"
You can download the Holler! album right now here for just $9.99. It includes a pdf of lyrics and pictures that aren't included on the physical CD.
While you're at it, read one of the best interviews we've ever done... from the guys at Blues Biscuits.
The last of the 2014 Holler Tour shirts are now just $10 each!
Shane Speal "Dive Bar Tour" shirts are also just $10.
We have even less of these left! | glimpse at a key element of my band's success... Shane Speal's Snake Oil Band is known for our take-no-prisoners live show... we're combative, insane and we fight for every minute of your attention. If the music doesn't get you, Ronn Benway's antics will. If that fails, we always have our arsenal of confetti cannons and toilet paper guns.
What we didn't know at the time was that our entire style was created by fighting for the | 99 |
Hikki
It's going to be happy Wednesdays and Thursdays for me because the American Idol is back!
I only had dinner at almost 10 because I waited for Pappy who somehow got home late. He apologised but I wasn't angry. I was hungry though but the television kept me entertained.
Am listening to Utada Hikaru's Final Distance. I love this song of hers…very much. I was reading through someone's blog and saw the title of this song. Have been playing it non-stop in the office today, it<|fim_middle|> I used to have a friend ( I don't know where he is now.) that was so obssessed with Hikki (Utada Hikaru's nickname) that I was somehow made to listen to her album, Deep River, in which the song – Final Distance – was in.
When you like someone, or when you are hoping that someone will like you in return, you try to like things that you never think you would like. Doing things that has never crossed your mind. I've tried playing albums and fallen in love with songs. I've bought a packet of Oreo biscuits a few days after someone bought me and shared the packet of Oreo with me. It just seemed so sweet that I had to go get another packet of Oreo myself, from the same mamak shop, to remind me of the sweetness…because I wanted to have the feeling all over again.
2 responses to "Hikki"
Explain. Aku tak faham
Apa yang kamu tak faham? | will continue tomorrow too.
You know what? Tomorrow's Utada Hikaru's birthday. She shares the same birthday as Iris. | 27 |
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Chesney On "Oprah;" Grascals Media Stops
Sarah Skates • March 23, 2010
Kenny Chesney with Oprah in 2009.
Kenny Chesney is heading to Chicago on Saturday, March 27, to tape an episode of Oprah that is set to air April 9. He will give the superstar host a sneak peak of his Summer in 3-D movie which arrives in theatres on April 21. The 3-D flick captures five of Chesney's dozen NFL stadium shows from last year's tour. Chesney also took a field team from Oprah with him to the Florida Keys to document a special afternoon.
The theme from Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D, is his new single, "Aint Back Yet." In other Chesney news, he wrote the forward for the new book from ESPN hosts Mike & Mike, Rules for Sports & Life.
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CMT host Hazel Smith with The Grascals members (L-R) : Jeremy Abshire, Jamie Johnson (front), Terry Smith (back), Kristin Scott Benson and Terry Eldredge.
Two-time International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainers of the Year The Grascals are scheduled for a slew of national appearances to promote their album, The Famous Lefty Flynn's, due out March 30.
The band's brand of March Madness kicked off last week with a stop at the GAC studios to perform new single, "The Last Train To Clarksville"—yes, it's The Monkees' remake—for the network<|fim_middle|> On The Streets program. The show airs today (3/23) at 12 and 8 p.m. CT and again tomorrow.
Fans of Hazel Smith's entertaining show CMT's Southern Fried Flicks will find The Grascals heating up her kitchen on Saturday, April 24.
The band will also visit SiriusXM Radio, RFD-TV's Larry's Country Diner and National Public Radio's Mountain Stage.
Next month, The Grascals join Hank Williams Jr., Jamey Johnson and Eric Church on Williams' Rowdy Friends Tour.
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Sarah Skates has worked in the music business for more than a decade and is a longtime contributor to MusicRow.
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Natural remedies made easy―an at-home guide to herbalismA growing number of people have turned to herbalism as an affordable, natural alternative to conventional medicine―and with a rich landscape of resources, those new to herbalism may wonder where to start. Herbalism at Home gives you the down-to-earth guidance and simple recipes you need to introduce plant-based remedies into your daily life.Start your path with an overview of the types of herbalism remedies, like teas, tinctures, salves, creams, and poultices. Discover in-depth profiles on 40 healing plants, including their medicinal properties, health benefits, and appropriate dosage―as well as 125 recipes for common physical ailments, mental health, personal care, childhood conditions, and even aging.Herbalism at Home includes:Herbal pantry―Take a look at the evolution of herbalism, the tools and ingredients you'll need, and tips on growing your own herbs.Plan ahead―Get to know techniques, like infusion, diffusion, and syrup―each with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations.Everyday healing―Ease everyday ailments with step-by-step recipes for Cuts and Scrapes Salve, Laryngitis Relief Honey, Memory Support Tonic, and more.Take healing into your own hands with Herbalism at Home, the all-in-one recipe and reference guide.
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That's not a weed-it's a healing meal! Learn how to use wild plants for food and medicine in this illustrated guide from two expert herbalists.Millions of people are interested in natural and holistic health, yet many are missing out on the key ingredient: Nature itself!Rekindle your connection with the earth as you craft your own herbal medicine with 75 delicious recipes and powerful healing remedies. Herbalists Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han expertly guide you through the benefits of two dozen of the most important and commonly found wild plants-many of which you can easily grow in your own garden, if foraging isn't right for you. Detailed illustrations and beautiful photography ensure that you won't make a plant-identification misstep as you learn how to tend and properly harvest the plant medicine growing right in your own neighborhood. After reading Wild Remedies, you'll never look at your backyard, a public park, or any green space in the same way again. Instead of "weeds," you'll see delicious foods like Dandelion Maple Syrup Cake, Nettle Frittata, and Chickweed Pesto. You will revel in nature's pharmacy as you make herbal oils, salves, teas, and many more powerful remedies in your own kitchen.
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Herbal Antivirals: Heal Yourself Faster, Cheaper and Safer – Your A-Z Guide to Choosing, Preparing and Using the Most…
Are you tired of using the nasty chemicals in medicine to fight your family's illnesses? Discover the power of natural medicines and herbs to eradicate your viral infections, including the recently spread Coronavirus.Are you scared of the hidden dangers in pharmaceutical medicines? Do normal treatments give you aches, pains, and other side effects? Is the cost of prescription medication making a major dent in your wallet? Author Mary Jones has dedicated years of her life to researching natural remedies and learning from naturopathic doctors. After proving the efficacy of these remedies in her own life, Jones has compiled all of her hard-earned information in one easy-to-use reference. In Herbal Antivirals: Heal Yourself Faster, Cheaper and Safer – Your A-Z Guide to Choosing, Preparing and Using the Most Effective Natural Antiviral Herbs, you'll find the 45 most medically-effective herbs available. Through Jones' comprehensive resource, you'll learn how to replace medical antibiotics and antivirals with herbal remedies with far fewer side effects. The book shows once and for all that you can ditch high-cost pharmaceuticals and use natural remedies for nearly every common ailment.In Herbal Antivirals, you'll discover:The best herbal treatments for illnesses ranging from warts to chronic hepatitis B or the deadly CoronavirusEasy natural medicine preparation methods and the correct dosages you should useThe five key essential oils with natural antiviral propertiesWhich herbal antivirals are safe to use when pregnant or breastfeedingWhere to find and how to grow all the herbs you need, and much, much more! Herbal Antivirals: Heal Yourself Faster, Cheaper and Safer is a comprehensively indexed, inspirational compendium that will help you benefit from the safe use of natural remedies. If you like herbal alternatives, easy-to-follow preparation instructions, and detailed references, then you'll love Mary Jones' painstakingly-compiled book. Buy Herbal Antivirals to benefit from Mother Nature's greatest gift to humanity today!
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"Perfect for anyone just beginning in herbal medicine." —Mother Earth Living Start your path to natural wellness with the safe, trusted advice found in The Herbal Apothecary. With the guidance of naturopath JJ Pursell, you will learn how to safely create your own remedies using plants you know and love. Incorporating traditional wisdom and scientific information, The Herbal Apothecary provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to plant-based medicine. It features profiles of the 100 of the most important medicinal plants that include information on medicinal uses, identification and cultivation, and recipes for common concerns. Additional information includes step-by-step instructions for making herbal teas, tinctures, compresses, salves, and more. This comprehensive guide includes treatments for men, women, and children that address a variety of concerns including muscle strain, the flu, the common cold, insomnia, anxiety, and much more.
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Gourds are hard-shelled fruits. They are generally used as decorations or in crafts. Gourds come in a wide variety of shapes and are often very colorful. They are related to pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, and melons.
Gourds first grew in the Americas and in tropical Africa and Asia. They were among the first plants grown by people. Today gourds are grown throughout the world in the tropics and in mild areas.
Gourds grow on vine plants. The vines are sticky and covered with rough, prickly hairs. The leaves are large, and the flowers are white or yellow. The smallest gourds are the size of a marble. The largest are more than 7 feet (2 meters) long. Some gourds are white, but<|fim_middle|> gourds to make musical instruments, pipes, masks, and containers such as water jugs. The inside of one type of gourd is dried and used as a sponge called a loofah.
Gourds are killed by the first frost of autumn. | many others have bands, stripes, or spots in shades of yellow and green. Some have smooth skin, while others have bumps or spines.
In some countries people eat gourds. But mostly people use | 42 |
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Located less than five minutes from Sheffield train station, facilities<|fim_middle|> a commitment to supporting start-up businesses and new talent in the region. As well as a range of unique office spaces, it offers business incubation support, a virtual office service and Co-working facilities.
The Workstation also hosts a regular programme of networking events in partnership with organisations across the city. Being here isn't just office space it's a community with free social events and activities for tenants, and is connected to the Showroom Cinema and Café Bar. | include a dedicated tenant services team, ultra-high-speed broadband throughout the building, a roof terrace and breakout areas, meeting rooms and event spaces for up to 200 people.
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Dubai might be a sprawling metropolis of ever expanding hotels, apartments and skyscrapers, each featuring the biggest and best, it's not always a matter of following the latest and greatest to find a gem of a hotel. Shangri-La Hotel on Sheikh Zayed Road might be one of the first luxury hotels in Dubai, but its recent investments are making sure this well located, established<|fim_middle|> well as the rooms.
The new rooms which are being decorated floor by floor have removed some of the wooden veneer finishes and instead appointed the space with luxurious tactile fabrics and ornate wooden panels to soften, smarten and add a contemporary glamour, although the foot print of the rooms won't change. That's no issue though, as they are more than spacious enough.
The one stand out element though, as with all Shangri-La hotels is the personal, non-invasive service element. Staff are always on hand, friendly, and efficient, responding to requests quickly. This is one thing that newer hotels will always struggle to master at first, as good service takes time to master, and it's one thing that the Shangri-La has had. If you haven't visited this property yet, it's one to seriously consider. If you have in the past, it might be worth another look, as the property's latest renovations brings it in line with the other, newer hotels.
THEDESIGNAIR STAYED AS PAYING GUESTS AT SHANGRI-LA, HOWEVER THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE ARE OUR OWN. | 5-star property doesn't fade in the Arabian sun.
Nestled at the main intersection connecting Downtown Dubai to the main drag of Sheikh Zayed, the hotel is perfectly situated in the Business District, but is also only 15 minutes from the airport, or a short 5-10 minute free shuttle bus ride to the Dubai Mall and its nearby attractions.
The foyer of the hotel is still as impressive as when it was first built. It's three storey high space featuring the main buffet restaurant with its wide array of delicacies from around the world, and its Lobby Lounge, which is the perfect place to grab a drink before heading out for the evening.
On the Balcony, there are a varierty of food outlets, including Hoi An, a great Vietnamese restaurant, Shang Palace, a chinese restaurant and their connecting Balcony Bar. But the fourth floor is perhaps the crown jewel in the property. It features the hotel's signature pool, which gets full sun from about 11am onwards, and has one of the most commanding views of the Burj Khalifa you will find in Dubai.
However come the evening, the space is turned into a buzzing poolside bar, with live DJ sets and a variety of Shishas as well as cocktails. It certainly attracts a younger crowd, and is a less showy place to enjoy the night – something that regular Dubai-goers tend to look for.
It's also connected to the hotel's Spa, which is a vast space, featuring a well equipped gym, squash court and CHI's treatment rooms with signature treatments.
Situated on the 41st floor, the Horizon Club is the hotel's signature 'hotel in a hotel' whereby guests who check-in to Horizon Club rooms are able to check in on the 41st floor, enjoy complimentary afternoon teas, pre-dinner cocktails and canapés and a smaller version of the breakfast buffet on the ground floor.
The Horizon club is well worth the additional cost, as the cocktails, breakfast and commanding views of the Burj Khalifa or the coast warrant the little bit extra. The Horizon Club also features its own mini-gym, with fantastic infinity swimming pool on the 42nd floor and a roof top balcony with fantastic views over Downtown Dubai.
The rooms are substantial, and well appointed, and while this may be one of the older properties, it is currently undergoing substantial renovations which are improving the foyer area as | 498 |
I'll at least say what this one is: I've been experimenting with photogrammetry, which is remarkable technology that reconstructs a scene from photographs. In this case, I took about 750 photos of my basement, and just from those photos (and several hours of CPU/GPU time), software<|fim_middle|> one of my favorites in recent memory, and if anybody has recommendations in that vein I'd be delighted to hear 'em. I didn't write a review of this one yet, but I do write a fair number of reviews on Steam (here's my reviews page).
Tonight I am going to the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals! :) Let's go Pittsburgh!
Oh goodness, months since anything to share. I really am working on this SIGBOVIK project for the impending deadline (and if you have anything you'd like to contribute, now is the time to get serious), even taking some vacation days later this week to finish. It's in that awkward state where I've put months of work into it, but I'm running out of time and might not get everything I dreamed of done, but I'm far enough along that I really ought to finish it for this conference. But this is what deadlines are so good at. | is able to reconstruct where the camera was located for each photo, then use the alignment of those cameras to infer the geometry of the scene as well as textures. It's pretty amazing to me that this works (I mean, obviously our brains can do this, so it's clearly possible, it's just impressive) and it's actually pretty practical for capturing a scene. In this case you're seeing a corner that I didn't photograph much, and haven't done much cleanup on. I've been working on my blender skills in an attempt to make a decently complete and clean model that can be experienced in VR, for those times that I want to go down to my basement but don't want to actually descend any stairs.
just covered in this disease-like rust, and I spent rather a long time sanding it down and repainting it in a tastefully selected tri-tone and then painting it again when the rust disease just poked grossly through the paint right away, like four times. And then I realized that the shelves are not actually good for storing the kind of hoard of miscellaneous electronics bits and other weird parts that I might use for something someday, so I started making some unreasonably nice wood boxes to put in the shelves, and that's what I was up to yesterday evening. And this is in like a spider-webby moist corner of my basement. Meanwhile I have like a pile of clothes in a bag on the floor of my bedroom that I still haven't put away since moving in. Difficult-to-justify prioritization, evidence of eccentricity, and such.
I played a couple of video games recently, and one that I really liked was called Environmental Station Alpha. It is mostly a straightforward Metroid-style game (with even some blatant inspiration/homages), but for me it had a nice difficulty curve and just the right balance of abusable bugs, as well as some great music and weird secrets. (The depth of different endings and things you can do if you really get into the game is quite impressive.) That was | 414 |
Many people think of corporations as essentially amoral. By its very nature, they say, a corporation only seeks to deliver value to its shareholders. It's a category mistake to criticize corporations for acting immorally, since this misunderstands their purpose. To the extent that we are concerned to ensure that corporations act morally, that is the purview of lawmakers and regulators, not the corporations themselves. As long as corporations act legally, they are beyond reproach. I was wondering if the panel had any remarks about this. It strikes me as a perverse conflation of what corporations tend to do, or what they have incentive to do, and what they ought to do. I see no reason not to view corporations as moral actors in more or less the same way as ordinary people.
A great question/topic. I'll offer no particular insight except to add to it an additional question: what reasons are there, if any, to distinguish the moral responsibility of corporations from that of individuals in the first place? As candidate Mitt Romney put it a few years back, corporations ARE people, they're made up of people, their decisions are<|fim_middle|> part of a group v those acting purely individually (if that ever genuinely occurs); perhaps those would introduce factors relevant for "corporate responsibility." I'm not familiar with any literature on this topic, but I would imagine it is out there -- perhaps in the business ethics world? | decisions that people take, ontologically they are presumably reducible to people (don't think Romney would put it that way!)--so why even introduce the idea of a 'corporation' as any sort of morally relevant entity distinguishable from the individuals who (say) make the decisions for the corporation? .... This in turn raises the very interesting question of whether groups of individuals might have decision-making processes that are different in nature from (say) individuals acting alone, and whether those differences are morally relevant ... We may (eg) recognize morally relevant influences on individuals who are acting within or as | 120 |
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Endorsement letters: Katz, Kozlark, and Savino receive support
Published 11:00 am EDT, Thursday, October 24, 2019
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Endorsement letters received after Monday, Oct. 21, will be run as online-only due to a surplus of letters this election season. They can be emailed to news@theridgefieldpress.com and must be less than 150
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Savino works with other town boards
Joe Savino is a 29-year resident of Ridgefield who has served on Planning and Zoning, Board of Selectmen, Board of Finance, and currently the Police Commission.
Joe is comfortable working collaboratively with other town boards and town residents to help improve Ridgefield. As the father of two daughters who graduated from Ridgefield<|fim_middle|>, landlord, ROAR champion, president of the Ridgefield Youth Services Board, and long-serving member of the Planning and Zoning Commission. John is thoughtful, knowledgeable, fair and hard-working (as well as quite funny). His devotion to the well-being of Ridgefield is steadfast, and I firmly believe he has been instrumental in keeping this town special.
I rarely see things in black and white, but this one's clear: John Katz for P&Z.
Melissa Glen
Bridle Trail
Kozlark serves
town well
Maureen Kozlark is the ideal public servant: dedicated, pragmatic, and compassionate. She has been an active community leader for decades, first as a tireless advocate on the Board of Education, then as a steward of our town's rich heritage on the Board of Selectmen. Maureen brings a solution-oriented approach to every issue she faces — from the environmental impact the salt on our roads has on our wetlands to her support for Ridgefield's cultural centers. With Maureen reviewing the budget each year, we can be confident that every dollar is being spent effectively and responsibly. More important than any one issue is the character that Maureen brings to the Board. Maureen is a devoted wife and mother, a dear friend, and a proud member of our community. She is exactly the person I want making the decisions that affect our town. Join me in voting for Maureen on Nov. 5.
Jeanne R. Manto
Silver Spring Lane
Rudy has produced positive results
Ridgefield has a one of a kind, effective and dedicated first selectman in Rudy Marconi. Rudy is the steward and visionary leader of our economic progress, real estate values, financial health, open space, small town character, social services and arts. He is a tireless advocate for our schools. He brought together state/federal grants for open space, the improvements on Route 7 and Branchville (in progress right now!) as well as the Rec Center, Founders Hall and our school's infrastructure. It's Rudy who works tirelessly to keep Ridgefield CT's No. 1 town. The positive results are evident to all.
In 2020, there are more challenges ahead for our families, our country and our town. Rudy is the only one who can be trusted to lead us in a positive and proactive manner.
Re-elect Rudy Marconi first selectman on Nov. 5. Vote for him and the team on Row A.
Susan D. Cocco
Branchville Road
Ridgefield needs Katz
John Katz has been a long-term and extremely valuable member of the Ridgefield Planning and Zoning Commission. His viewpoint is to protect the town from unreasonable growth but at the same time to be fair to the applicants. His emphasis has always been the entrances into town and the downtown area, which are the most visible to everyone. John has done a good job looking at the total picture as well.
We need that historic viewpoint on this commission to learn what works and what doesn't and also to learn from our mistakes.
Join me in voting for John Katz for another term on the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Sue Manning
Prospect Street | schools, he understands how important excellent schools are to our children's future and our property values. Joe will ensure we properly maintain our school buildings and lead the fight on any efforts to regionalize our schools.
Please join me in supporting Joe for the Board of Selectmen.
James Keidel
Ridgefield Board of Education
Vote for Katz
I am a longtime resident of Ridgefield and, like many, have seen the effects of growth on our town. Laws like 830-g have made planned growth more difficult. John Katz has worked diligently within the constraints of the law to keep our town the great community it is. I ask your support for him as he stands for re-election to P&Z.
John F. Metzger
Colonial Lane
Steckler deserves reelection
Jonathan Steckler has extensive knowledge, natural compassion and an even temperament — vital qualities for a member of the Board of Education. Having known him and his family for almost 10 years, I have seen him in many neighborhood interactions with groups and individuals with diverse backgrounds and opinions. He has always been thoughtful, respectful and open to the type of dialog that brings about mutual understanding. These are exactly the qualities we need in our board members. His work on the board over the past two years proves he deserves to continue to serve the students and community of Ridgefield.
Jennifer DiLaura
Katz for P&Z
I have known John Katz as a friend | 294 |
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Directional Emission of Fluorescent Dye-Doped Dielectric Nanogratings for Lighting Applications
By structuring a luminescent dielectric interface as a<|fim_middle|> whose directional emission can be designed for specific applications. The exploitation of nanoimprinting techniques for the fabrication of the luminescent grating enables production of the device on large areas, paving the way for low-cost lighting and solar applications.
Titolo: Directional Emission of Fluorescent Dye-Doped Dielectric Nanogratings for Lighting Applications
Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C.
Verschuuren, Marc A.
De Boer, Dick K. G.
Kong, Frank
Urbach, H. Paul
Beccherelli, Romeo
CAPUTO, Roberto | relief diffraction grating with nanoscale features, it is possible to control the intensity and direction of the emitted light. The composite structure of the grating is based on a fluorescent dye (Lumogen F RED 305) dispersed in a polymeric matrix (poly(methyl methacrylate)). Measurements demonstrate a significant enhancement of the emitted light for specific directions and wavelengths when the grating interface is compared to nonstructured thin films made of the same material. In particular, the maximum enhancement of photoluminescence for a given pump wavelength is obtained at an angle of incidence that is close to the Rayleigh anomaly condition for the first-order diffracted waves. In this condition, the maximum extinction of incident light is observed. Upon excitation with coherent and monochromatic sources, photoluminescence plots show that the Rayleigh anomalies confine the angular interval of the emitted light. Being the anomalies directly related to the pitch of the diffraction grating, the system can be thus implemented as an optical device | 207 |
Cristatusaurus ist eine Gattung fleischfressender Dinosaurier aus der Gruppe Spinosauridae. Bisher sind lediglich Kieferknochen und Rückenwirbel bekannt, die aus der Unterkreide (Aptium) des Nigers stammen. Einzige Art ist Cristatusaurus lapparenti. Es ist umstritten, ob Cristatusaurus als gültige Gattung oder als ein Nomen dubium (zweifelhafter Name) einzustufen ist, oder ob die Fossilien tatsächlich zu dem verwandten Baryonyx gehören.
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Die Körperlänge lässt sich aufgrund der sehr wenigen bekannten Fossilien nur schwer schät<|fim_middle|> Albert de Lapparent, welcher bedeutend zum Verständnis der Dinosaurierfunde der Sahara beitrug und die Grabungsarbeiten im Jahr 1966 unterstützte.
Einzelnachweise
Theropoda
Theropoden | zen – Cristatusaurus könnte jedoch eine Länge von ungefähr zehn Metern gehabt haben. Die gefundenen Rückenwirbel sind mit 13,5 Zentimetern Länge etwa genau so groß wie die größten bekannten Wirbel von Spinosaurus maroccanus.
Die Zähne waren wie bei anderen Spinosauriden konisch. Verglichen mit verwandten Gattungen waren die Zähne leicht seitlich abgeflacht und leicht gesägt – im Gegensatz zu dem verwandten Irritator, dessen Zähne ungesägt waren. Das Zwischenkieferbein war verglichen mit dem des verwandten Baryonyx kurz und von der Seite betrachtet hakenförmig.
Gültigkeit der Gattung und Systematik
Die Gültigkeit dieser Gattung ist umstritten. So lassen sich die Fossilien nicht deutlich von der verwandten Gattung Baryonyx abgrenzen. Verschiedene Forscher führen Cristatusaurus als Nomen dubium (zweifelhafter Name). Andere Forscher schreiben diese Fossilien Baryonyx zu (als Baryonyx sp.), was Christatusaurus zu einem jüngeren Synonym von Baryonyx macht. Thomas Holtz (2004) hält Cristatusaurus jedoch weiterhin für eine gültige Gattung, und ordnet sie innerhalb der Baryonychinae ein, einer Untergruppe der Spinosauridae.
Forschungsgeschichte und Namensgebung
Fossilien stammen aus der Gadoufaoua-Lokalität der Tegama-Formation. Das Typmaterial (Exemplarnummer MNHN GDF 366) besteht aus beiden Zwischenkieferbeinen (Prämaxillare), sowie Teilen des rechten Ober- und Unterkiefers. Weitere, der Gattung zugeschriebene Funde schließen ein verschmolzenes paariges Zwischenkieferbein sowie einen Rückenwirbel mit ein. Cristatusaurus wurde 1998 mit der Art Cristatusaurus lapparenti von Philippe Taquet und Dale Russell benannt. Der Name Cristatusaurus bedeutet so viel wie "Kamm-Echse" (lat. cristatus – "Kamm", gr. sauros – "Echse"). Das Artepitheth lapparenti ehrt den Paläontologen | 536 |
From right, Dr Gabriel Rugalema of FAO, a young farmer in Nakuru, Mr Herman Githinji, Bidco Land O Lakes and Mrs Grace Kirui of ATC during the recent AgriTech Talks in Nakuru.
Many<|fim_middle|> (FAO), who officially opened the event.
The second AgriTech Talks were organised by Smart Farmer Africa, publishers of the Smart Farmer magazine, in partnership with the Nakuru County government, and held on December 6 and-7.
Through the theme, 'Promoting Digital Technologies, Agribusiness and Mechanisation Among Youth', the AgriTech Talks are a platform for young people, aimed at educating, inspiring, connecting and engaging young farmers by bringing to them technologies and innovations, which can change the way agriculture is done. It meant to encourage them to embrace agriculture, which is often shunned.
This one of the initiatives aimed at encouraging youth to venture into farming. Statistics show that one million students graduate from tertiary institutions in Kenya annually, but only 200,000 get employed, leaving about 800,000 with no meaningful source of income.
Previous articleImports: Why are local farmers crying? | young people see agriculture as boring, tiresome and a dirty job, while their friends do not make things any better with their sly glances whenever one shows an interest in farming. And to the community?
The general belief is that those engaged in agriculture are failures! But this is not what agricultural experts and the authorities think, though.
"Encouraging young people to till the land is important in transforming the future in feeding the nation," said Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui.
His remarks were in a speech read during an AgriTech Talks session held in December at the ATC Grounds in Nakuru. Mechanisation of the sector, he said, could attract more youth and ease their work, giving them time to engage in any other activities to earn an extra income.
"Through agribusiness and innovation startups by youth, the private sector is capable of instituting tremendous change in the sector, because the younger people understand technological tools more and can use them to improve agriculture, making it easier that the traditional methods. Technology is the enabler that will turn youth into effective farm ers in the 21st century," said Dr Gabriel Rugalema, the Country Representative, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation | 246 |
The headlines may have been stolen by the likes of Britt Assombalonga and Eoin Doyle this week but, perhaps the most heart-warming story came in Sky Bet League 2 at the R Costings Abbey Stadium, where on-loan Exeter City striker Alex Nicholls got himself on the scores<|fim_middle|> out on loan to Devon to get some first-team football under his belt.
He has been selected in Paul Tisdale's starting line-up for the Grecians' last two matches, completing the full 90 minutes of both to remove any question marks he had over his fitness.
And Tisdale's faith was justified at Cambridge. Nicholls set-up Graham Cummins for the equaliser with a perfectly-weighted pass, before netting the winner to seal Exeter's first three points of the campaign. | heet after two years on the sidelines.
The front man suffered a broken leg in October 2012 when scoring for Northampton Town against Port Vale, and it has been a long road back for the 26-year-old.
But, after returning to full fitness with the Cobblers at the start of this season, he was sent | 69 |
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